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Overview of the Pacific Ring of Fire

The Ring of Fire is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. It is approximately 40,000 kilometers long and is the result of plate tectonics and the movement of Pacific tectonic plates. Collisions between the Pacific and surrounding plates have created subduction zones where oceanic lithosphere is consumed, forming volcanoes and causing earthquakes. Examples of volcanoes on the Ring of Fire include Mt. Popocatepetl in Mexico and Mt. Fuji in Japan, while major earthquakes include the 2011 Great Sendai Earthquake in Japan and the 1964 Alaska earthquake.

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Overview of the Pacific Ring of Fire

The Ring of Fire is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. It is approximately 40,000 kilometers long and is the result of plate tectonics and the movement of Pacific tectonic plates. Collisions between the Pacific and surrounding plates have created subduction zones where oceanic lithosphere is consumed, forming volcanoes and causing earthquakes. Examples of volcanoes on the Ring of Fire include Mt. Popocatepetl in Mexico and Mt. Fuji in Japan, while major earthquakes include the 2011 Great Sendai Earthquake in Japan and the 1964 Alaska earthquake.

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Science

Presentation
RING
OF FIRE
Prepared by : Khoo Hui
Xin, Khoo Ka Lok, Aerin
Yii, Soo Cheng Lok
What is the ring of fire
Ring of fire is a path along the Pacific Ocean
characterized by active volcanoes and frequent
earthquakes. Its length is approximately 40,000
kilometers. The Ring of Fire is a direct result of
plate tectonics: specifically the movement,
collision and destruction of lithospheric plates
under and around the Pacific Ocean.
Infographic
Name of tectonic plates

African Plate Eurasin plate North American Plate

South Amarican Plate

Antartic plate Indo Australin Plate Pasific Plate


Tectonic plate configurations
Past plate
configurations

The Pacific Plate came into existence in the Early Jurassic about 190 million
years ago. For example, subduction has been occurring at the coast of South
America since the Jurassic Period more than 145 million years ago, and
remnants of Jurassic and Cretaceous volcanic arcs are preserved there.

Present-day plate
configuration
In South America, the Ring of Fire is the result of the Antarctic Plate, the Nazca Plate and the Cocos
Plate being subducted beneath the South American Plate. A portion of the Pacific Plate and the small
Juan de Fuca Plate are being subducted beneath the North American Plate. Farther west, the Pacific
Plate is being subducted at the Kamchatka Peninsula and Kuril arcs. Farther south, at Japan, Taiwan
and the Philippines, the Philippine Plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian Plate. The
southwest section of the Ring of Fire is more complex, with a number of smaller tectonic plates in
collision with the Pacific Plate at the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, eastern Indonesia, Papua New
Guinea, Tonga, and New Zealand; this part of the Ring excludes Australia, because it lies in the center
of its tectonic plate far from subduction zones
How was the volcanoes and earthquake made?

The collisions have created a nearly continuous


series of subduction zones, where volcanoes are
created and earthquakes occur. Consumption of
oceanic lithosphere at these convergent plate
boundaries has formed oceanic trenches, volcanic
arcs, back-arc basins and volcanic belts.
Example of volcanoes that are on the ring of fire

Mt. Popocatepetl : Popocatepetl is a volcano in Mexico that is part of


ring of fire that last erupted in 2012 it is outgoing.

Mt. Fuji : Mt Fuji is a volcano in Japan that is part of ring of the fire it
last erupted is in 1707-1708.
Example of earthquake that are on the ring of
fire
Great Sendai Earthquake : The Great Sendai Earthquake is occurred in Japan of 2011 is
part of ring of fire

Alaska earthquake : The Alaska earthquake is occurred in south-central Alaska of 1964 is


part of ring of fire
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