{"id":12115,"date":"2024-12-18T06:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12115"},"modified":"2024-12-18T06:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:10:53","slug":"large-7-3-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-vanuatu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12115","title":{"rendered":"Large 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near Vanuatu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/536953\/vanuatu-7-point-3-magnitude-earthquake-first-reports-of-damage\">Vanuatu&#8217;s 7.3 earthquake<\/a>\u00a0is expected to rise because concrete buildings have collapsed with people inside in the capital Port Vila.<\/p>\n<p>International Federation of Red Cross Pacific head of delegation Katie Greenwood posted on X that the Vanuatu government was reporting 14 confirmed fatalities and 200 people were treated for injuries at the main hospital in Port Vila.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/536977\/vanuatu-quake-you-could-hear-people-absolutely-screaming-their-heads-off\">efforts to retrieve<\/a>\u00a0people trapped by fallen buildings and rubble have continued overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ind\">In a press conference, Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai said a State of Emergency and curfew were in place in the worst affected areas. &#8221; urgently request international assistance,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated 116,000 people had been affected by the quake and earlier said there were six unconfirmed deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Vanuatu\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/536974\/why-earthquakes-are-more-common-in-places-such-as-vanuatu\">has been experiencing aftershocks<\/a>\u00a0following Tuesday&#8217;s quake, the ABC reported. The New Zealand High Commission was among buildings that have been damaged.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from\u00a0Vanuatu&#8217;s 7.3 earthquake\u00a0is expected to rise because concrete buildings have collapsed with people inside in the capital Port Vila. International Federation of Red Cross Pacific head of delegation Katie Greenwood posted on X that the Vanuatu government was reporting 14 confirmed fatalities and 200 people were treated for injuries at the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12117,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions\/12117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}