
OCHA
Sara Manni
Vanuatu Impact Story
“I was in town when the ground started shaking violently,” recalled Sonia, a resident of Mamau, a small eastern community in Vanuatu’s capital, Port Vila. “All I could think about was my children at home. I felt helpless and terrified.”
Sonia’s words capture the fear that gripped the community when a powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck on 17 December 2024. It claimed 14 lives, injured more than 200 people, temporarily displaced over 1,000 and disrupted the lives of 80,000 others. Read More