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The “Ring of Fire”
About 90% of the world’s earthquakes and 81% of the largest earthquakes occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean in a 40,000 kilometres (25,000 miles) horseshoe shape known as the Pacific Ring of Fire. This arc also known as “Ring of Fire” or as the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt with a continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. stretches from New Zealand, along the eastern edge of Asia, north across the Aleutian Isl...
7 Major Tectonic Plates: The World's Largest Plate Tectonics - Earth How
7 Major Tectonic Plates: The World's Largest Plate Tectonics - Earth How
Plate Tectonics | Dogfoose.com (Michael Kline)