Ring of Fire

I was watching a show about the ring of fire this morning before I went to work and it's one of those cool facts that I wanted to share.

The "Pacific Ring of Fire" (or sometimes just Ring of Fire) is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean.

In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes.

It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt.