Earthquake. Rescuers in vanuatu are searching for people still trapped after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the pacific nation’s capital, port vila, on tuesday, killing 14. Emsc (european mediterranean seismological centre) provides real time earthquake information for seismic events with magnitude larger than 5 in the european mediterranean area and larger than 7 in the rest of the world.
Earthquakes are more common in some parts of the world than others, because some places, like the u.s. Dan mcgarry, a journalist in port vila, has told checkpoint an industrial forklift that is usually used to lift large containers has been used to. Vanuatu’s capital was without water on wednesday, a day after reservoirs were destroyed by a violent magnitude 7.3 earthquake that wrought havoc on the south pacific island nation, with the.