{"id":68383,"date":"2024-12-18T07:49:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/18\/death-toll-expected-to-rise-in-vanuatu-after-earthquake-plunges-nation-into-state-of-emergency"},"modified":"2024-12-18T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T03:21:57","slug":"vanuatu-earthquake-death-toll-expected-to-rise-as-second-quake-plunges-nation-into-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68383","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers in Vanuatu race to retrieve trapped quake victims as survivors tell of escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses recount the moment the earthquake hit in Port Vila, as rescue teams sift through the wreckage after disaster that has killed 14 and injured 200<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rescuers in Vanuatu\u2019s capital are racing to pull out victims trapped under rubble as witnesses spoke of their escape from the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck the Pacific nation on Tuesday, killing at least 14 and injuring hundreds more.<\/p>\n<p>Glen Craig, the chair of the Vanuatu Business Resilience Council, was in the tallest building in the capital of Port Villa when the powerful quake struck.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/18\/death-toll-expected-to-rise-in-vanuatu-after-earthquake-plunges-nation-into-state-of-emergency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses recount the moment the earthquake hit in Port Vila, as rescue teams sift through the wreckage after disaster that has killed 14 and injured 200Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRescuers in Vanuatu\u2019s capital are racing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,263,1709,874,1767,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-natural-disasters","category-pacific-islands","category-penny-wong","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68392,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68383\/revisions\/68392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}