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The Ring of Fire is also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire. The yellow line is the location of the Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire is bascically where the Earth's tectonic plates have spread apart and cracked, allowing warm lava to rise and causing many earthquakes and volcanoes. Also, the plates here often shift and that is why there are often tsunamis. Tsunamis are caused underwater by onshore earthquakes that are very powerful.

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What does the ring of fire have to do with the number of earthquakes and volcanoes japan?

The Ring of Fire is also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire. The yellow line is the location of the Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire is bascically where the Earth's tectonic plates have spread apart and cracked, allowing warm lava to rise and causing many earthquakes and volcanoes. Also, the plates here often shift and that is why there are often tsunamis. Tsunamis are caused underwater by onshore earthquakes that are very powerful.


Where are volcanoes and earthquakes found?

the ring of fire


What might be the hazards at living near the 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.


Where is most earthquakes and volcanoes located?

the 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.


Do tsunami mostly come from the ring of fire?

The Ring of Fire is a belt of high volcanic and earthquake activity surrounding the Pacific Ocean. The Ring of Fire is largely a result of the several subduction zones, where one tectonic plate slides under another. Most tsunamis are triggered by earthquakes at subduction zones, which means that many of the world's tsunamis start around the Ring of Fire.


How is volcanoes and earthquakes are alike?

They are both along the Ring of Fire.


Why are earthquakes and volcanoes frequert in japan?

Because Japan lies in the Ring of Fire, a belt of volcanoes that ring the Pacific Ocean.


What is the region called that is subject to frequent earthquakes and volcanoes?

ring of fire


Zone of earthquakes and volcanoes surrounding the pacific ocean?

The Ring of Fire


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.


Is the ring of fire is called because it has loads of volcanoes?

The border of the Pacific Ocean is a tectonically active zone with lots of earthquakes and volcanoes; you are correct that it is the volcanoes which have inspired the term "ring of fire".