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The Pacific Ring of Fire is an area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions encircling the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km 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. Ninety percent of the world's earthquakes and 80% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. The next most seismic region (5-6% of earthquakes and 17% of the world's largest earthquakes) is the Alpide belt, which extends from Java to Sumatra through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the third most prominent earthquake belt.[1][2] Some of the famous Volcanoes in the Pacific basin, are: Mt. Saint helens, Mt. Baker and a few others The Ring of Fire is a direct result and consequence of plate tectonics and the movement and collisions of crustal plates.[3] The eastern section of the ring is the result of the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate being subducted beneath the westward moving South American Plate. 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, the Philippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand. 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.[4][5] 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.[6] The December 2004 earthquake just off the coast of Sumatra was actually a part of the Alpide belt
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What is the circle of volcanic mountains in the pacific ocean?
Nippon
Where would I find volcanoes on earth?
Generally around fault lines, such as the Ring of Fire that surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean.
When did Sydney Booker find the ring of fire?
She found the ring of fire in either 1949 or 1958. Two sites say something different
Where can you find the most number of the volcanoes in the world?
the ring of fire
What is ring or fire?
is a ring of fire
Where do you get the flame ring for Sonic in Sonic Adventure 2?
You find the fire ring in the crazy gadget stage.
Sonic Adventure 2- how to get a fire ring?
For Shadow it will be in the city level. There will be a trail that you can go backwards on and find the fire ring. For Sonic it will be not hidden in the space level.
What might be hazard of living near the ring of fire?
Earthquakes mainly - but you would not want to be too close to an active volcano associated with the Ring of Fire.
What might be the hazards living near the ring of fire?
Earthquakes mainly - but you would not want to be too close to an active volcano associated with the Ring of Fire.
In the ring of fire what do you find there?
most likley volcanoes and somtimes even earthquakes
What are the words to ring of fire?
Love is a burning thingAnd it makes a fiery ring.Bound by wild desireI fell into a ring of fire.[2x]I fell into a burning ring of fire,I went down, down, down and the flames went higherAnd it burns, burns, burns,The ring of fire, the ring of fire.The taste of love is sweetWhen hearts like ours meet.I fell for you like a child,Oh, but the fire went wild.I fell into a burning ring of fire,I went down, down, down and the flames went higherAnd it burns, burns, burns,The ring of fire, the ring of fire.I fell into a burning ring of fire,I went down, down, down as the flames went higherAnd it burns, burns, burns,The ring of fire, the ring of fire.And it burns, burns, burns,The ring of fire, the ring of fire,The ring of fire, the ring of fire.
What is a specific word for indonesia's ring of fire?
The Ring of Fire.
