Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on the tsunami warnings hitting the US after Russia earthquake

People are scrambling to higher ground across the Pacific, after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's east.

It's recorded four-metre waves, with half-metre waves reaching Japan and tsunami alerts in effect for Alaska, Hawaii and the entire US west coast.

US correspondent Dan Mitchinson says Hawaiian residents are 'scrambling' - and traffic is building up.

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