GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Ring of Fire isn’t quite a circular ring. It is shaped more like a 40, 000-kilometer (25, 000-mile) horseshoe. A string of 452 volcanoes stretches from the southern tip of South America, up along the coast of North America, across the Bering Strait, down through Japan, and into New Zealand.

Detailed explanation-2: -Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca, Antarctic, Indian, Australian, Philippine, and other smaller plates, which all encircle the large Pacific Plate.

Detailed explanation-3: -What countries are in the Ring of Fire? There are 15 countries in the ring of fire; Indonesia, New Zealand, Papa New Guinea, Philippines, Japan, United States, Chile, Canada, Guatemala, Russia, Peru, Solomon Islands, Mexico and Antarctica.

Detailed explanation-4: -East and Southeast Asia are located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of high tectonic activity along the Pacific Ocean basin (Figure 9.2. 1). The vast majority of the world’s earthquakes, around 90 percent, occur along this geologically unstable area.