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The Circum-Pacific Belt, or also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, accounts for about 80% of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that occur in a year, and is home to about 68% of Earth's volcanoes.
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Subduction zones, like the plate boundaries zones: oceanic-oceanic (like Lesser Caribbean) or oceanic-continental, like Andean Cordillera and the "Circum-Pacific Fire Belt".
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