WASHINGTON, September 19. /TASS/. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has cancelled the threat of a tsunami imposed after an earthquake in Kamchatka, the US Geological Survey said.

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit Kamchatka at 9:58 p.m. Moscow time on September 18, the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences said. Residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Vilyuchinsk felt tremors with a force of 6 points.