<p>An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck Vanuatu's capital Port Vila on Tuesday, damaging buildings and cars with at least one person reported killed.</p><p>Vanuatu state broadcaster VBTC showed footage of vehicles crushed in a building collapse on a street lined with retailers. The broadcaster reported one person had been trapped in a collapsed building.</p><p>Other footage posted on social media showed buckled windows and collapsed concrete pillars on a building hosting foreign missions in the capital, including the US, British, French and New Zealand embassies.</p><p>"Our High Commission building, which is co-located with the United States, the French and the United Kingdom, has sustained significant damage," a spokesperson for New Zealand's foreign ministry said in a statement.</p>.Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Indonesia. <p>There were communications outages across the country, the statement added.</p><p>Police reported at least one person had been killed and injured people had been taken to hospital, according to Dan McGarry, a journalist with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project based in Vanuatu, in a post on X.</p><p>"I saw three people seriously injured on gurneys waiting treatment," he said.</p><p>"There is substantial damage around town. We've got a building that has pancaked," McGarry told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview.</p><p>The road connecting Port Vila to its main port was blocked by landslides, he added.</p><p><em>Reuters</em> was not able to immediately able to confirm the casualty figures, with authorities in Vanuatu not reachable for comment.</p><p>The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles).</p><p>The US Tsunami Warning System cancelled an initial tsunami warning for Vanuatu.</p><p>Authorities in the US, Australia and New Zealand said there was no tsunami threat to their territories.</p>
<p>An earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck Vanuatu's capital Port Vila on Tuesday, damaging buildings and cars with at least one person reported killed.</p><p>Vanuatu state broadcaster VBTC showed footage of vehicles crushed in a building collapse on a street lined with retailers. The broadcaster reported one person had been trapped in a collapsed building.</p><p>Other footage posted on social media showed buckled windows and collapsed concrete pillars on a building hosting foreign missions in the capital, including the US, British, French and New Zealand embassies.</p><p>"Our High Commission building, which is co-located with the United States, the French and the United Kingdom, has sustained significant damage," a spokesperson for New Zealand's foreign ministry said in a statement.</p>.Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Indonesia. <p>There were communications outages across the country, the statement added.</p><p>Police reported at least one person had been killed and injured people had been taken to hospital, according to Dan McGarry, a journalist with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project based in Vanuatu, in a post on X.</p><p>"I saw three people seriously injured on gurneys waiting treatment," he said.</p><p>"There is substantial damage around town. We've got a building that has pancaked," McGarry told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in an interview.</p><p>The road connecting Port Vila to its main port was blocked by landslides, he added.</p><p><em>Reuters</em> was not able to immediately able to confirm the casualty figures, with authorities in Vanuatu not reachable for comment.</p><p>The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles).</p><p>The US Tsunami Warning System cancelled an initial tsunami warning for Vanuatu.</p><p>Authorities in the US, Australia and New Zealand said there was no tsunami threat to their territories.</p>