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First of all not helpful, but I am happy you made a good report.
2nd of all I found that the Ring of Fire is home to 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of its earthquakes.
I found it on national geographic.
Here is the link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth/ring-of-fire/
Plagiarism
i'm doing a project on the ring of fire, and I was just on another site. This has almost word-for-word what that person wrote.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.24.243 (talk • contribs) 01:54, 10 November 2006
The ring of fire
The Ring of Fire or the circus-Pacific (seismic) belt is a zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 90% of the world’s earthquakes and 81% of the world’s biggest earthquakes happen along the Ring of Fire. Also the Ring of Fire is home to over 75% of world’s active and dormant (sleeping) volcanoes. The Ring of Fire stretches 40,000km around the Pacific and Nazca tectonic plates, along the boarders with the North/South-American, Eurasian, Philippine and Indy- Australian plates. You can find Hawaii exactly in the middle.
Here you can see the position of the ring of fire in relation to the different plates and continents.
There are a lot of oceanic trenches (estrogen) and island arcs (island-groups positioned in a circle to each other) in the Ring of Fire. The trenches are because the Ring of fire is positioned on the tectonic boarders, this is where the different plates move against each other which can cause plates to move up or down. The island arcs are a result of big volcanoes the highest points of the volcano are in a circle, and when the volcano grows these points become islands. The main issues: the volcanoes and earthquakes are a result of the tectonic boarders: where there is a hole between the plates, volcanoes rise. And where the plates move towards and along each other, this causes vibrations. The Ring of Fire is a direct consequence of plate tectonics (shape of the plates) and the movement and collisions of these plates. For instance the eastern section of the ring is the result of the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate being pressed beneath the westward moving South American Plate. And there are a lot of other contacts with plates along the Ring of Fire. The southern part of the Ring of Fire is the most complex part, here there are collisions between a number of smaller tectonic plates and the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand.
Indonesia is especially dangerous because it lies between the ring of fire and the Alpide belt, the two worst, earthquake areas. The earthquake and tsunami in December 2004 near Sumatra were actually a result of the movements of the Alpide belt, and not of the Ring of Fire.
The Ring of Fire is home to a lot of volcanoes and mountains, these are:
The Andes, and Cotopaxi and Azul volcanoes in South America. These were created by the Nazca plate colliding with the South American plate.
The Mexican volcanoes of Popocatepetl and Paricutun. A result of the little Cocos plate crashing into the North American plate. These volcanoes suddenly rose up from a cornfield in 1943.
The Cascades and the infamous Mount Saint Helens, between Northern California and British Columbia. Saint Helens erupted in 1980. These are created by the Pacific, Juan de Fuca, and Gorda plates.
Alaska's Aleutian Islands are growing as the Pacific plate hits the North American plate. The deep Aleutian Trench has been created at the subduction zone (where one plate slides above another) with a maximum depth of 7679 meters.
From Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to Japan, the subduction of the Pacific plate under the Eurasian plate has created Japanese islands and volcanoes (such as Mt. Fuji).
The volcanoes in the New Guinea and Micronesian areas. These exist where the Indo-Australian plate subducts under the Pacific plate. The final section of the Ring of Fire exists where the Indo-Australian plate subducts under the Pacific plate and has created. Near New Zealand, the Pacific Plate slides under the Indo-Australian plate.
How come there are no mentions of Alaska in here? It only has a greater length of geography then the rest of the US in the Ring of Fire. Alyeska (talk) 22:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
External Links
Hi, External links seem to be subsumed under References. Has the External Links heading on this page been deleted accidentally? I was going to add it in, but wasn't sure.--Tearanz (talk) 04:45, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
The Ring Of Fire affects earth surface by the motion of tectonic plates (pieces that make up the strong outer sheel of earth) cause the ring of fire's earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.114.235.2 (talk) 01:21, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Pacific Rim/Ring of Fire?
So what's the difference between the Rim of Fire and the Ring of Fire? Are they just different names for the same thing? --Jack14:36, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
One is a Political/Economic Zone, the other is a geological feature. Although they cover roughly the same geographical region - they are not the same thing. Australia is part of the Pacific Rim, but it is not on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Malathos18:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Then perhaps this should be pointed out in the article, since "Pacific Rim of Fire" redirects here.--Jack04:45, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, I wasn't actually aware of that redirection, Now I see that Pacific Rim of Fire redirects to Pacific Ring of Fire - which is correct. My comments were in regard to the Pacific Rim - which is a separate article. Apologies for not reading your question correctly. There is no difference between Rim of Fire and Ring of Fire. The Pacific Rim (no fire) is the economic/political reference and correctly has it's own page. As you say, It may be worth putting a disambiguation at the top of the page to clarify matter
More info*
Yeah, this isn't enough information. It doesn't explain exactly what the ring of Fire is, how it got the name, anything.
hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.234.100.113 (talk) 18:49, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Surely Sumatra and Java i.e. the Sunda Arc, is not part of the Pacific Ring of Fire? The Indo-Australian plate subducts under the Eurasian plate, not the Pacific Plate, nor does the Sunda Arc border the Pacific basin. The Sunda Arc is the easternmost arm of the Alpide Belt[1], related to the Alpine Orogen. Paper:
"A new approach for preparation of quantitative seismicity maps as applied to Alpide Belt-Sunda Arc and adjoining areas."[2]
"One such area is the circum-Pacific Ring of Fire, where the Pacific Plate meets many surrounding plates." - USGS
The date on the picture labels the Mount St. Helens eruption as July 22, 1980, but the internal Mount St. Helens page states the eruption occurred May 18, 1980.
--2dlogans (talk) 00:44, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Global Volcanism Program (GVP), the eruption period started Mar 27, 1980, and ended Oct 28 ± 3 days, 1986. Quote from the image description: "After May 18th five more explosive eruptions of Mount St. Helens occurred in 1980, including this spectacular event of July 22nd...The view here is from the South." --Chris.urs-o (talk) 05:47, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for the reference of the continued activity there. However, the picture states it's July, but the peak is shown still intact.2dlogans (talk) 22:44, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
(ec)The first explosion of the eruption removed one side of the mountain, so there won't be any pictures of an erupting 'intact' volcano, I presume the photo in question was taken from the side unaffected by the blast of the 18th. Mikenorton (talk) 23:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Pacific Ring of Fire - Hawaii
The islands of Hawaii should also be listed as the territorial area of Pacific Ring of Fire!
Hawaiian —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.91.85.250 01:12, 12 March 2011
A simple look at the world map and tectonic plates map indicate that it is inaccurate to claim that that the volcanoes of Indonesia and Indian Ocean rim are included in the Pacific Ring of Fire. These networks of volcanoes are most at the plate boundaries of the Indian-Australian, Phillipine, and Eurasian Plates, not the Pacific Plate.
JD — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.76.96.144 (talk) 17:44, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Requested move
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Ok, but can the hatnote at P.R.o.F.say "RoF links here. For the Johnny Cash song, see RoF (song). For other uses, see RoF (disambig)", please, as it is far more likely a target than any of the others on that disambiguation page, and we want to help many "Ring of Fire" searchers better that way. Chrisrus (talk) 07:00, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Support, per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. This is one of those cases where the usage statistics reflect long-term significance, and why I believe long-term significance should not have to ever be given direct consideration, because, when it's really long-term significant, the users show that in their usage. --B2C01:42, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
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DoneChrisrus (talk) 04:21, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
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