Dr.sticky Whiskers

The Ring of Fire is an area where a lot of volcanoes erupt and earthquakes happen along the Pacific Ocean .In a 25,000 mile horseshoe shape there are oceanic trenches,volcanic arcs and volcanic belts and earthquakes. Inside the Ring of Fire there is 75% of the worlds active and dominant volcanoes .

Another name for the ring of fire is Circum-Pacific Belt or Circum-Pacific Seismic Belt . About 81% of the worlds biggest and baddest earthquakes happen along the ring of fire . The ring of fire is where plate tectonics and the movement and collisions of the lithospheric plates happen. The famous and very volatile San Andreas fault zone of California is a transformation fault which offsets a portion of the east pacific rise under most of which are too small to be felt.