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Why do earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the ring of fire?
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∙ 13y ago
The volcanic eruptions are the cause of tectonic movement of the "plates" meaning that when the plates hit each other they cause the magma under the earth to rise and sometimes erupt causing ash and sometimes lava to leave the volcanic shell in an eruption
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoTsunamis are usually triggered by an earthquake at a subduction zone. The Pacific ring of fire is an area of high seismic and volcanic activity bordering the Pacific Ocean than includes several subduction zones.
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∙ 8y agoThe "ring of fire" is the location of several intersecting subduction zones where the pacific plate is sinking under continental plates. As the pacific plate sinks friction with the continental plate and compression heating heats and melts the pacific plate. The melted rock becomes magma and feeds volcanoes inside the continent.
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∙ 16y agotsnamis happen in the ring of fire because when volcanos erupt it causes an action to create an earth quake
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∙ 15y agoWell, when subduction occurs it makes faults in the ground. These faults can lead to earthquakes and volcanic activity.
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∙ 11y agoTsunamis are caused by earthquakes. Earthquakes and volcanoes can result from the collision of tectonic plates. The ring of fire is a region where tectonic plates collide.
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Where do lots of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur?
The Ring of Fire and the San Andreas Fault
Where does most of the worlds earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
There is a region called the Pacific Ring of Fire, which bounds the entire Pacific Ocean with active convergent tectonic plates that has most of the world's earthquakes and volcanoes.It has 452 volcanoes and it is home to 75% of the world's dormant and active volcanoes.
What Stages that lead up to volcanic eruption?
Fire,Ash,smoke clouds, and earthquakes
Why does the Philippines frequently have earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?
Because Philippines is in located in the earth's surface where areas are broken into seven large and many small moving plates. These plates move relative to one another an average of a few centimeters per year. The Philippine Plate is squeezed in between the Eurasian plate and the Pacific Plate, but the situation is more complex than that. The Philippine Islands are surrounded by complex plate boundaries, and the Philippines Plate rather consists of several micro-plates - squeezed in between two convergent plate margins.Because the Philippines is part of the "Ring of Fire". The Pacific Ring of Fire (or sometimes just the Ring of Fire) is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km (25,000 mi) horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt. A place where Philippines is located.
Earthquakes occur most often along the?
Earthquakes occur most often along the boundaries of tectonic plates.
Where do lots of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur?
The Ring of Fire and the San Andreas Fault
The Ring of Fire has many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.?
Why do the areas along the ring of fire experience many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes?
What is an area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?
The ring of fire
How does the pacific ring of fire affect japan?
1) It affects japan because it is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
What are those active volcanoes under the sea in the Philippines?
The active volcanoes under the Philippines are part of the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean. The Ring of Fire and the Pacific Plate are where the majority of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
What are the three zones of increased earthquakes and volcanic euptions?
The three zones of increased earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are the ring of fire, the Mediterranean Sea Zone, and the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge
What part of the equator is most likely to suffer from the earthquakes or volcanic eruptions?
The ring of fire has the most active volcano's in the world
What is the name of the famous ''ring'' of volcanos?
The name of the famous "ring" of volcanoes is the Pacific Ring of Fire. It is a region in the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur due to the movement of tectonic plates.
What is a zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in Pacific Ocean is called?
ring of fire... THIS ANSWER IS WRONGGG! I TRIED IT AND IT WAS WRONG!
What does the term the ring of fire mean?
This is an area of earth quakes and volcanic eruptions that occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean
What is Japans most common natural disaster?
Japan has earthquakes, tsunami's, volcanoes, snow avalanches and many other hazards.
Name areas prone to volcanic eruptions?
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.
