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The ring of fire is a system of underwater volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean. These were the cause of the devastating 2004 tsunami
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∙ 12y agobecause the pacific ocean is fully covered by the pacific plate, which is bordered by the Eurasian plate and the American plates.
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80 percent of all earthquakes occur along the boundary of which ocean?
The ring around the Pacific Ocean.
The most earthquakes occur on what coastline?
the Pacific Ocean
When Ninety percent of the worlds earthquakes occur around the?
Pacif Ocean
Where do volcanoes occur the most?
The most volcanoes occur around the Pacific Ocean, in an area called the Ring of Fire.
Where are earthquakes or volcanoes likely to occur?
The answer is that earthquakes and volcanoes are most frequent along Tectonic plate boundaries, these are the natural pieces that the continents and oceans are on.
Most earthquakes occur around the outer edge of what ocean?
The pacific ocean
About 80 percent of all earthquakes occur in a belt around the?
Pacific Ocean
80 percent of all earthquakes occur along the boundary of which ocean?
The ring around the Pacific Ocean.
Ninety percent of the worlds earthquakes occur around the?
Pacific Ocean rim.
What is the name given around the Pacific ocean where many earthquakes occur?
Ring of fire
Why do the majority of tsunamis occur in the pacific ocean?
Tsunamis mostly occur in the Pacific Ocean because they are made because of Earthquakes and lots of earthquakes happen in the ring of fire.
What ocean has a ring of volcanoes and earthquakes around it?
Pacific Ocean
What are volcanoes and earthquakes likely to occur?
If you mean "where" earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely to occur it is in what's called the "ring of fire" which is the coastal ring around the Pacific Ocean.
Most of the world's earthquakes occur around?
the Ring of Fire.continental coasts of the Pacific Ocean. Pacific Ocean rim.
The most earthquakes occur on what coastline?
the Pacific Ocean
What ocean has a line of earthquakes and volcanoes around it?
Pacific
Why do most volcanoes occur around the Pacific Ocean?
Most volcanoes and earthquakes occur around the Pacific Ocean basin in a roughly horseshoe shaped ring called the Rim or Ring of Fire. This is where the seismic activity is most intense due to the movement of the tectonic plates.
