Efforts to recover bodies of people trapped in collapsed buildings continues in the earthquake-hit Pacific nation of Vanuatu ...

Vanuatu said on Saturday it will lift a suspension on commercial flights to restart its vital tourism industry following an ...

A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit Vanuatu on Tuesday, sparking a network outage, crushing vehicles and damaging ...

The number of people killed and missing remains unclear two days after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the Pacific island ...

Some Vanuatu residents in Port Vila are still too scared to sleep in their own houses as powerful tremors continue to rock ...

Vanuatu said on Saturday it would lift a suspension on commercial flights to restart its vital tourism industry following an ...

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Vanuatu early Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, just days after a deadly 7.3-magnitude quake buffeted the island.

The earthquake caused widespread destruction in the South Pacific island nation, with communications still down hours later and official information scarce.

The 7.3-magnitude quake struck at a depth of 57 kilometres (35 miles), some 30 kilometres off the coast of Efate, Vanuatu's main island, at 12:47 pm (0147 GMT), according to the US Geological Survey.

the capital of Vanuatu, a group of 80 islands home to about 330,000 people. A tsunami warning was called off less than two hours after the quake, which was followed by large aftershocks.

Clement Chipokolo, Vanuatu country director at the Christian relief agency World Vision, said health care services, already strained before the quake, were overwhelmed. While power was out in ...

Vanuatu's position on a subduction zone ... are not uncommon and the country's buildings are intended to withstand quake damage. "I think it could have been worse," Mr McGarry said.