What is the Ring of Fire?
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The Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped zone around the Pacific Ocean with frequent earthquakes and many of the world’s active volcanoes. It marks major tectonic plate boundaries.
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The Ring of Fire stretches along the edges of the Pacific basin, including the coasts of South and North America, Alaska, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and New Zealand. It exists because several tectonic plates meet there, especially at subduction zones where one plate sinks beneath another. That process generates magma, volcanoes, and powerful earthquakes. Roughly 75% of the world’s active volcanoes are found in this region, and about 90% of the world’s earthquakes occur around the Pacific rim.
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