The "ring of fire" comprises the seaboard costs of the countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean. The zone is where oceanic crust is being subducted under continental crust and the location of many volcanoes and continual earthquake activity.
It is impossible to give you a count of the number of earthquakes that happen in the zone, earthquake activity is continuous.
Perhaps about 24%.
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The USGS detected 22,256 earthquakes in the year 2000 although they estimate that a much larger number occur (> 1,000,000) than can be detected as the vast majority of earthquakes are very small and occur far away from seismometer stations.
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Ring of fire
About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 81% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the circum-Pacific seismic belt, also known as the Ring ofFire.
Because Japan is right next to the Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire is a plate around the Pacific Ocean that has many earthquakes on it's border line.
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It is impossible to tell. 2010 was a year of numerous large earthquakes around the globe. However, many smaller earthquakes occurred and many more that were too weak to be measured. It is estimated that millions of earthquakes occur each year.
If it is near the Ring of Fire (or Pacific Ring of Fire) it will be vulnerable to many earthquakes.
Why do the areas along the ring of fire experience many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes?
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Many occur along the Ring of Fire (where many volcanoes are located; volcanic activity and seismic activity are both caused by fluctuations in the Earth's crust due to unrest in the mesosphere), as well as along faults on the western coast of the United States. Earthquakes occur there daily. As a matter of fact, Earthquakes occur constantly along any plate boundary or fault, but the two places I just mentioned suffer from more severe earthquakes that occur more frequently.
It definitely has dangerous aspects, as it formed many active volcanoes and earthquakes zones.
Yes, many earthquakes occur under the ocean which is generally in water.
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