Pacific Ring of Fire
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| The ring of fire is in the Pacific Ocean. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt. The ring of fire is an arc stretching from New Zealand, along the eastern border of Asia, north across the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and south along the coast of North America and South America. 90% of the worlds earthquakes happen in the ring of fire and 81% of the world’s largest earthquakes also happen in the ring of fire. The ring of fire is in a 40,000 kilometer horseshoe shape. It’s made of 452 volcanoes and is home to 75% of the worlds most active and dormant volcanoes. It has a nearly continuous series of ocean trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcano belts and/or plate movements.
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