By Wednesday, at least 14 people were known to have died and around 200 were injured.
The search for survivors in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu continued Wednesday after a powerful earthquake shook the country on Tuesday.
By Wednesday, at least 14 people were known to have died and around 200 were injured. The number of victims was believed to continue to rise.
In Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, numerous buildings collapsed, and the city’s main hospital, for example, was badly damaged.
Vanuatu is an island nation of 320,000 inhabitants in Oceania, located east of Australia. According to the estimate given by the UN, the earthquake could have seriously affected up to 116,000 inhabitants.
Vanuatu is classified as one of the countries most prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes, storms, floods and tsunamis.