Ring of Fire is a long horseshoe-shaped seismically active belt of earthquake epicentres, volcanoes, and tectonic plate boundaries that fringes the Pacific basin. It is also called the Circum-Pacific belt. About 90% of the world’s earthquakes occur there.
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