Earthquake off Vanuatu kills one person

One person was killed in an earthquake off the coast of Vanuatu. This was reported on December 17 by the publication Nzherald.

The material notes that the number of victims may be more.

Also the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand reported about the significant damage to the building of the representative office in Vanuatu after the incident.

On the same day, a tsunami threat was declared off the coast of Vanuatu following the magnitude 7.4 earthquake. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) specified that the earthquake occurred at a depth of 43 km at a distance of 25 km from the city of Port Vila, which is the capital of Vanuatu.