GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Indonesia
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New Zealand
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Japan
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South Sudan
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mount Fuji, Japan’s tallest and most famous mountain, is an active volcano in the Ring of Fire. Mount Fuji sits at a “triple junction”, where three tectonic plates (the Amur Plate, Okhotsk Plate, and Philippine Plate) interact.
Detailed explanation-2: -Japan’s stretch of the Ring of Fire is where the North American, Pacific, Eurasian and Philippine plates come together. Northern Japan is largely on top of the western tip of the North American plate. Southern Japan sits mostly above the Eurasian plate. The world’s tectonic plates.
Detailed explanation-3: -"The Pacific plate is moving towards Japan every year, so it’s subducting and melting and that’s the source of those volcanoes, ‘’ he said. Professor Quigley said the biggest earthquakes in the world had occurred around the Ring of Fire.
Detailed explanation-4: -The largest volcano in the Ring of Fire is also the largest volcano on Earth. It is Mauna Loa, and it is located in Hawai’i, on the island of Hawaii.