Articles for tag: Pacific Ring of Fire, Plate tectonics, Seismic Activity, Tectonic Plates

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The Pacific Ring of Fire: Earth’s Most Volatile Geological Region

Suhail Ahmed

  On a map, the Pacific Ring of Fire looks almost harmless: a red horseshoe sketched around the edges of the world’s largest ocean. On the ground, it is anything but. This sweeping arc of volcanoes, deep-sea trenches, and fracture zones controls some of the most violent earthquakes and most spectacular eruptions on Earth. It ...