What is The Ring of Fire?

The ring of fire, also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, The Rim of Fire, The Circum-Pacific Belt, or The Girdle of Fire, is a belt (tectonic) of volcanoes, and earthquakes. This belt is about 40,000 kilomete long spread upto about a width of 500 kilometer. This string is a sensitive site of seismic activities, and possesses thousands of volcanoes. Roughly 90% of the world’s earthquakes occur on this belt.