The death toll from the 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Vanuatu has risen to 10, prompting rescue efforts to expand beyond the devastated capital, Port Vila. The quake caused widespread damage, including building collapses, landslides, and disruptions to water and communication services. International aid has arrived from Australia and New Zealand, with teams focusing on locating survivors and providing emergency support.
Rescue rs say they have expanded a search for survivors in quake-rocked Vanuatu to “numerous places of collapse” beyond the stricken capital, as the reported death toll climbed to 10.
It has so far claimed 10 lives in Port Vila, according to government figures relayed Thursday by the United Nations' humanitarian affairs office.About 80,000 people have been directly affected by the earthquake in the archipelago of 320,000 people which sits in the Pacific's quake-prone Ring of Fire, the UN said.Australia and New Zealand dispatched more than 100 personnel, along with rescue gear, dogs and aid supplies, to help hunt for survivors and make emergency repairs.
In Port Vila, rescuers have focused on two disaster areas: a four-storey building housing a supermarket, hotel and garage in the north in which the ground floor was flattened; and a two-floor shopping block in the city centre that crumbled into a flat pile of concrete.The quake also wrecked a building housing the US, French, British, Australian and New Zealand diplomatic missions. The ground floor along half of that four-storey structure was flattened, but no deaths were reported.
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