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A member of Australia's Federal Police stands by a collapsed building in Port Vila, Vanuatu, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, following a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck off the coast of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean, Tuesday, Dec. 17. (Australian Federal Police via AP)

Number of dead and missing still unclear as first aid arrives in quake-hit Pacific nation of Vanuatu

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

This image made from a video shows a landslide near an international shipping terminal in Port Vila, Vanuatu following a powerful earthquake Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (Dan McGarry via AP)

Magnitude 7.3 earthquake causes widespread damage in Pacific island nation of Vanuatu

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 9, 2015, file photo shows Mungau Dain in Venice, Italy. Dain had never considered acting before he starred in the Oscar-nominated film “Tanna.” He got the role because his elders decided he was the best-looking guy in their traditional village on the Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Dain died Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, in the capital Port Vila, after contracting a leg infection that wasn’t quickly treated. He was in his mid-20s. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

Humble Pacific island movie star Mungau Dain dies in mid-20s

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 16, 2015, photo, clothes are seen laid out to dry as Adrian Banga surveys his destroyed house in Vanuatu's capital Port Vila. Aid has begun arriving in the storm-hit nation's capital following Cyclone Pam, but contact has still not been made with some of its more remote islands. (AP Photo/Dave Hunt, Pool)

Vanuatu avoids big casualties with shelter and early warning

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

In this March 15, 2015 photo provided by UNICEF Pacific, young children move around debris as residents work to recover from Cyclone Pam in Mele village, on the outskirts of the capital Port Vila, Vanuatu. Vanuatu's President Baldwin Lonsdale said the cyclone that hammered the tiny South Pacific archipelago was a &quot;monster&quot; that has destroyed or damaged 90 percent of the buildings in the capital and has forced the nation to start anew. (AP Photo/UNICEF Pacific) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES

Baldwin Lonsdale, Vanuatu president, says nation must start anew after cyclone

By Nick Perry and Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Big quakes spawn tsunami alert in S. Pacific