How would you describe the Pacific Ring of Fire?

The Pacific Ring of Fire is essentially a series of faults and volcanoes that encircles the entirety of the Pacific Rim, from Chile in South America to North America to Japan to Australia. This string of fault lines makes up most of the world’s earthquakes and volcanoes. read more

Most of the Earth's volcanoes are located around the Pacific Ring of Fire because that the location of most of the Earth's subduction zones. A subduction zone is a place where one plate of oceanic lithosphere (= the crust + uppermost mantle) is shoved under another plate. read more

Also known as the circum-Pacific belt, the “Ring of Fire” is a 40,000 km (25,000 mile) horseshoe-shaped basin that is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. read more