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In this photo released by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Australian rescue workers inspect a damaged building in Port Vila, Vanuatu Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, following a powerful earthquake that struck just off the coast of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean. (DFAT via AP)

What to know about Vanuatu, the Pacific island nation struggling to recover from a massive quake

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

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

A building is seen damaged in Port Vila, Vanuatu following a powerful earthquake Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (Tim Cutler via AP)

Rescuers dig for survivors of Vanuatu earthquake with no water and unclear death toll

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

In this May, 2019, photo provided by the Vanuatu Cricket Association players celebrate during a women's cricket match in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The tropical island in the South Pacific is very likely to be the only venue in the world hosting a competitive cricket final on Saturday, as most international sport remains shuttered around the globe. (Ron Zwiers/Vanuatu Cricket Association via AP)

A rarity: cricket goes live in Vanuatu in the South Pacific

Associated Press

FILE - In this April 8, 2020, file photo supplied by World Vision, a house is damaged from Cyclone Harold on the island of Santo in Vanuatu. The United Nations released $2.5 million from its emergency humanitarian fund on Monday, April 13, 2020, to help thousands of people in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu affected by Cyclone Harold and offered support to other hard-hit countries. (World Vision via AP, File)

UN releases $2.5 million to help cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this April 8, 2020, photo supplied by World Vision, a house is damaged from Cyclone Harold on the island of Santo in Vanuatu. New Zealand announced Wednesday, April 8, 2020 it would help Vanuatu rebuild from the cyclone with aid of up to 500,000 New Zealand dollars ($300,000). Foreign Minister Winston Peters said Cyclone Harold had destroyed homes, infrastructure and crops. (World Vision via AP)

27 dead on Solomon Islands ferry: Did it follow virus order?

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2018, file photo, a Papuan activist with his forehead painted with banned separatist flag the &quot;Morning Star&quot; marches with others during a rally commemorating the 57th anniversary of the failed efforts by Papuan tribal chiefs to declare independence from Dutch colonial rule, in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. Activists in Indonesia’s mountainous jungle-clad Papua region risked imprisonment to collect 1.8 million signatures for a petition calling for self-determination but faced a dilemma: They were blocked from presenting it to the intended recipient, the United Nations. (AP Photo/Trisnadi, File)

Papuans get independence petition to UN despite obstacles

By STEPHEN WRIGHT - Associated Press

Australian prime minister backs security treaty with Vanuatu

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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

Residents of New Caledonia's capital, Noumea, wait in line at a polling station dedicated to the natives of the Loyalty islands, before casting their vote as part of an independence referendum, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018. Voters in New Caledonia are deciding whether the French territory in the South Pacific should break free from the European country that claimed it in the mid-19th century. (AP Photo/Mathurin Derel) ** FILE **

Magnitude 7.5 quake strikes in Pacific near New Caledonia

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

Strong Pacific quake hits near Vanuatu but no tsunami threat

Associated Press

Vanuatu again orders evacuation of island as volcano erupts

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

In this combination of photos, from left to right: Shinmoedake volcano in southwestern Japan on Oct. 12, 2017; Mount Agung in Bali on Oct. 8, 2017; Manaro volcano on Vanuatu on Oct. 1, 2017. The horse shoe shaped string of active volcanos bounding the Pacific Ocean has lived up to its &quot;Ring of Fire&quot; calling card in the past month, sparking mass evacuations in Indonesia and Vanuatu and now setting parts of south-western Japan on edge. The 450 or so volcanos that make up the Ring of Fire are an outline of where the massive Pacific Plate is grinding against other plates that make up the earth's crust, creating a 40,000 kilometer-long (25,000 mile) zone prone to frequent earthquakes and eruptions. (Kyodo, Vanuatu Meteorological and GeoHazards Department via AP)

‘Ring of Fire’ volcanos remind Asia of seismic peril

Associated Press

Peace begins by seeing ‘humanity as ourselves’

By The Honorable Andrew Solomon Napuat

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