The Ring of Fire is an area in the Pacific Ocean that experiences frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. It contains over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes and is home to approximately 90% of the world's earthquakes. The Ring of Fire forms a path around the Pacific Ocean basin due to the subduction and collision of tectonic plates in the region. Countries like Japan that fall within the Ring of Fire are susceptible to volcanic and seismic activity.

1. What is the Ring of Fire?
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2. A summary of the Ring of Fire
● The Ring of Fire is an area in the Pacific
Ocean where there is volcanoes, submarine
ridges, and ocean deeps.
● The area is also said the Pacific Ring of Fire.
● Because of them, earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions are apt to happen arround the area.
● Japan is a place in the Ring of Fire.

3. How place is the Ring of Fire
● The Ring of Fire is 40,000 km size.
● The area has 452 volcanoes being over 75% of
the world's active and dormant volcanoes
volcanoes.
● About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 80% of
the world's earthquakes happen in the Ring of
Fire.
● The area is also said the circum-Pacific seismic
belt.

4. How place is the Ring of Fire from
plate tectonics (1)
● There are the plate's movement and many
collisions of plates in the Ring of Fire.
● For example in the eastern section of the Ring of
Fire, the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate are
subducted beneath by the South American Plate.
● Other example in the eastern section of the Ping
of Fire, the Cocos Plate is also subdected by the
Caribbean Plate, in Central America.

5. How place is the Ring of Fire from
plate tectonics (2)
● The southetrn portion of the Ring of Fire is more
complex so there are collisions of the plates in the
Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Bougainville,
Tonga, and New Zealand.
● Because of them, many earthquakes and
big earthquakes have happen in the Ring of Fire.
● For example, a magnitude 7 event happened in
the southern portion at 1929.

6. The Ring of Fire in Unaited States
● The Cascade Voicanic Arc lies in the western
United States.
● The Cascade Volcanic Arc includes 20 major
vocanoes in over 4000 separate volcanic
vents inluding stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes,
lava domes, and cinder cones.
● The Cascade volcanism began about 37 milion
years ago, and Cascade volcanoes are less than
2,000,000 years old.

7. The Ring of Fire in Japan
● Japan has 10 percent of the world's active
volcanoes.
● Some volcanoes lie in a zone of extreme crustal
instability and are fomed by subduction of the
Pacific Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate.
● Many earthquakes have happened in Japan.
● Frequency in the happening of the earthquakes in
Japan is 1,500 earthquakes yearly.

8. Finally, in my feeling reading this
article
● The Ring of Fire is the area where volcanic
eruptions and earthquakes can happen.
● The area has many volcanoes, submarine ridges,
and ocean deeps.
● Japan in the Ring of Fire can be happened
by earthquakes and has many volcano.
● I understand that some Japanese earthquakes
have happened along the Ring of Fire.