GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Ring of Fire, also referred to as the Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. It is largely a result of Plate Tectonics where massive Pacific Plate interacts with less-dense plates surrounding it.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most common type of volcanoes that are found in the Ring of Fire are island arc volcanoes. These volcanoes are a chain of islands where volcanoes erupt and/or form when one tectonic plate moves under another one. An example of an island arc is the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.

Detailed explanation-3: -Why is it called the ring of fire? It is so-called because it marks a track around the rim of the pacific ocean. Also, since more than 75 percent of earth’s volcanoes and 90 percent of earthquakes are witnessed here, it is called the ring of fire.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Ring of Fire was formed as oceanic plates slid under continental plates. Volcanoes along the Ring of Fire are formed when one plate is shoved under another into the mantle – a solid body of rock between the Earth’s crust and the molten iron core – through a process called subduction.