Before striking in Vietnam, the typhoon resulted in catastrophic damage in the Philippines - including a minimum of 114 lives lost.
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has announced a state of calamity - the threshold of which involves numerous deaths, widespread structural damage, and interruption of income sources and everyday existence for people in the affected areas.
The typhoon, called in the region Tino, tore through the heavily populated island of Cebu, submerging entire towns and carrying vehicles down roads.
Tens of thousands of people had to be relocated, with many taking refuge in temporary accommodations.
Disaster personnel are actively operating while displaced Filipinos find refuge in designated safe areas.
The scale of this calamity has led to extensive disaster relief throughout the devastated zones.
Disaster teams could be seen engaged in extracting a body at a landslide location in Cebu City.
The typhoon has made homeless in excess of 400k people in the Philippines.
Roadways are blanketed with sediment and photographs reveal stacks of vehicles distributed across the damaged regions.