Tsunami warning issued as 7.8 magnitude earthquake rattles the Philippines

Well, a tsunami warning has been issued in the Philippines after a 7 .8 magnitude earthquake struck the country south.Let's go live to our Asia correspondent, Stash Butler.Stash, give us a sense of what kind of damage this earthquake has already caused.

Well CCTV cameras in streets show people rushing out into the street the moment that 7 .8 magnitude earthquake hit off the southern island of Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines at around 7 .37 local time.We've seen lots of unverified As we speak, we've hit the end of the time range in which the first waves are expected to hit.They're expected, if they do come, to last for several hours.President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. has urged people to listen to that warning, to heed it, saying that lives are more important than anything that could be left behind.He's also ordered all schools in the affected areas of Mindanao to be closed.And underlining the continued threat that this seismic activity poses, we've seen numerous aftershocks, including an aftershock of about a magnitude 6 .7 around half an hour ago, and it's expected that those could continue, too.

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