The 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the main island on Tuesday, toppling concrete buildings, setting off landslides, damaging water supplies and knocking out mobile networks.
Two of the dead were Chinese and one French, their countries' embassies have confirmed.
More than 14,000 of them are children.
There are “several major collapse sites where buildings are fully pancaked”, Australia’s 69-strong rescue team leader Douglas May said in a video update provided by Canberra on Friday.
“We’re now starting to spread out to see whether there’s further people trapped and further damage. And we’ve found numerous places of collapse east and west out of the city.”
Night-time curfew
The government has declared a seven-day state of emergency and a night-time curfew.
Vanuatu has usually been able to set up refuge for disasters such as cyclones, he told AFP.
Ivan Oswald, owner of the Nambawan Cafe in the city centre, was serving coffee and food to rescue workers.
“Construction crews are out. People want to come into town but it is blocked off. There are still people around -- once the government lets us operate again, that will be the next thing for us. It will be business as usual.”
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