{"id":236725,"date":"2022-10-14T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=236725"},"modified":"2023-09-29T10:47:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T09:47:19","slug":"pacific-ring-of-fire-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/pacific-ring-of-fire-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Unknown Facts About The Pacific Ring of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
No, we’re not talking about that feeling you have the next day after overeating spicy food, and we’re not talking about the drinking game.\n
The Ring of Fire we’re talking about is Earth’s most violently volcanic region.\n
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The last 11,700 years of the Ring of Fire have been rather intense.\n
We measure from this point as it’s the length of the Holocene Epoch, the current geological period.\n
During this time, around 850-1,000 volcanoes have been active along the Ring of Fire.\n
The four largest volcanic eruptions in the Holocene Epoch have all occurred here, with more than 350 active volcanoes recorded in human history.\n
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They’re not minor earthquakes, as 81% of the world’s largest earthquakes happen here.\n To put that into perspective, the area with the next most seismic activity, the Alpide Belt, only has about 5-6% of the world’s earthquakes.\n A lot of this comes down to how seismic and volcanic activity is created.\n The areas in question are the western side of Indonesia, which is also in the Alpide Belt, the Antarctic Peninsula, and the South Shetland Islands.\n The activity happens in the more questionable areas for different reasons from the rest of the ring.\n The Ring of Fire covers a mind-bogglingly immense swathe of the Earth. It all but encircles the Pacific Ocean, with just the border of the South Pacific Ocean safe from seismic and volcanic activity.\n This makes the Ring of Fire more like a horseshoe, but Horseshoe of Fire doesn’t sound that great, so we can see why this name was chosen instead.\n The ring begins around New Zealand and stretches along coastlines up to the Bering Strait before following the coast down the Americas to Chilean Patagonia.\n The ring doesn’t just go straight up north from New Zealand. Instead, it follows landmasses covering Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Philippines.\n From there, it reaches out to Japan before hitting northeast Russia and traveling along into Alaska to complete the first half of the ring.\n This incredible zone of activity then continues along the west coast of the Americas, touching every single nation along that coastline until it gets to the southernmost tip of Chile.\n All these nations have lots of volcanoes and earthquakes, and it’s the ring of fire!\n The thing about the Ring of Fire is that it’s only really active along the boundaries of the ring itself.\nThere’s no universal agreement on the boundaries of the Ring of Fire.\n
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The Ring of Fire is about 25,000 miles long.\n
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More than 15 countries are within the boundaries of the Ring of fire.\n
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It’s relatively safe inside the ring.\n
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