The Ring of Fire is a direct result of plate tectonics and the movement and collisions of lithospheric plates. The eastern section of the ring is the result of the Nazca Plate and theCocos Plate being subducted beneath the westward movingSouth American Plate. The Cocos Plate is being subducted beneath the Caribbean Plate, in Central America. A portion of the Pacific Plate along with the small Juan de Fuca Plate are being subducted beneath the North American Plate. Along the northern portion the northwestward moving Pacific plate is being subducted beneath the Aleutian Islands arc. Further west the Pacific plate is being subducted along the Kamchatka Peninsula arcs on south past Japan. The southern portion is more complex with a number of smaller tectonic plates in collision with the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, thePhilippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand; this portion excludes Australia, since it lies in the center of its tectonic plate. Indonesia lies between the Ring of Fire along the northeastern islands adjacent to and including New Guinea and the Alpide belt along the south and west from Sumatra, Java, Bali, Flores, and Timor. The famous and very active San Andreas Fault zone of California is a transform fault which offsets a portion of the East Pacific Rise under southwestern United States and Mexico. The motion of the fault generates numerous small earthquakes, at multiple times a day, most of which are too small to be felt. The active Queen Charlotte Fault on the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia,Canada, has generated three large earthquakes during the 20th century: a magnitude 7 event in 1929, a magnitude 8.1 occurred in 1949 (Canada's largest recorded earthquake) and a magnitude 7.4 in 1970.
the pacific ocean
Kilauea is not on a continent. It is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and is located on the Pacific Plate.
The Ring of Fire is not a volcano. It is a chain of hundreds of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean on Earth.
Surrounding the Pacific Ocean basin is what is called the Ring of Fire...
The blue whale is found in the Atlantic Ocean,and also in the Pacific Ocean.
found the Pacific Ocean
the pacific ocean
the pacific ring of fire
Pacific OceanHawaii is in the central Pacific.
Milk fish are normally found in warm areas of the Pacific Ocean. They are most commonly found near the Solomon Islands.
Milk fish are normally found in warm areas of the Pacific Ocean. They are most commonly found near the Solomon Islands.
it was Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
The Ring of Fire
pacific ocean
Kilauea is not on a continent. It is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and is located on the Pacific Plate.
in the pacific ocean
By an undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean. By volcanic activity.