Australia is urgently sending assistance, including emergency medical and search and rescue teams, to Vanuatu following a powerful earthquake.

Here's what we know about the major earthquake that struck the Pacific Island nation and triggered tsunami warnings.

Vanuatu: Vanuatu coordinating with local, int'l partners in aftermath of quake Posted: December 19, 2024 | Last updated: December 19, 2024 Port Vila, Vanuatu - December 18, 2024 Vanuatu ...

Voters in Pacific nation Vanuatu cast ballots Thursday in a snap general election, a contest widely dismissed as a ...

Nearly 1pm on December 17, 2024, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck off the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu killed ...

People remained trapped in a collapsed building in Vanuatu's capital Port Vila on Wednesday a day after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific nation, killing 14 people including two Chinese ...

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake rattled buildings on Vanuatu's main island early Sunday ... no tsunami alerts were triggered when it struck at 2:30 a.m. local time. Port Vila businessman Michael ...

Flights out of the airport had been suspended, France’s ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, wrote on social media on Tuesday. Michael Thompson, a local business owner ...

A local journalist says there are "multiple deaths" following a magnitude-7.3 quake in Port Vila, Vanuatu. It struck the capital a depth of 57.1km on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. At ...

At least 14 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after a major earthquake struck Vanuatu on Tuesday. The Red Cross reported the updated death count early Wednesday local time ...

Landslides and aftershocks in Vanuatu following the earthquakes on Tuesday and Wednesday pose risks to public health, according to Basil Leodoro, a local surgeon and director of HELP-R 1 ...