{"id":289381,"date":"2024-04-04T18:32:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=289381"},"modified":"2024-04-04T18:32:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:02:39","slug":"pacific-ring-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pacific-ring-of-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source<\/strong>-This post on Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’<\/strong> is based on the article “Massive earthquake hits Taiwan: What is the Ring of Fire?<\/strong><\/a>” published in “The Indian Express<\/strong>” on 4th April 2024.<\/p>\n

Why in the News?<\/h2>\n

Recently, a massive earthquake hit Taiwan, resulting in the loss of many lives. Taiwan is prone to earthquakes because it lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” where 90% of the world’s earthquakes take place.<\/p>\n

What is Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’?<\/h2>\n
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Source- The Indian Express<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1.<\/strong> The Ring of Fire, also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt<\/span>, is a chain of numerous volcanoes and earthquake<\/span>–prone areas<\/span> that stretches along the Pacific Ocean<\/span>.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> It forms a horseshoe-shaped semicircle<\/span>, spanning approximately 40,250 kilometres in length.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> The Ring of Fire marks the borders between multiple tectonic plates such as the Pacific, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Indian-Australian, Nazca, North American, and Philippine Plates.<\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> It passes through 15 additional countries<\/span>, including the USA, Indonesia, Mexico, Japan, Canada, Guatemala, Russia, Chile, Peru, and the Philippines.<\/p>\n

Features of Ring of Fire<\/h2>\n

1. Active volcanoes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

a.<\/strong> Volcanoes in the Ring of Fire are caused by the movement of tectonic plates<\/span>, often through a process called subduction. This occurs when two plates collide, with the heavier one being pushed beneath the other, resulting in the formation of deep trenches.
\nb.<\/strong> The Ring of Fire hosts over 450 active and inactive volcanoes, making up 75% of the Earth’s total volcanoes<\/span>. These volcanoes form a semicircle or horseshoe shape around the Pacific Ocean rim.
\nc.<\/strong> The majority of active volcanoes along the Ring of Fire are located on its western side,<\/span> spanning from Russia to New Zealand.<\/p>\n

2. Earthquakes:<\/strong>
\na.<\/strong> The Ring of Fire experiences frequent earthquakes because the tectonic plates continuously slide past, collide with, or move above or below each other.
\nb.<\/strong> 90% of earthquakes happen along the Ring of Fire<\/span>, including some of the most powerful ones. For example-<\/strong> The Valdivia Earthquake in Chile in 1960, which measured 9.5 on the Richter scale, holds the record as the strongest earthquake ever recorded.<\/p>\n

3. Trenches:<\/strong>
\na.<\/strong> The Ring of Fire includes the Mariana Trench<\/span>, the deepest ocean trench<\/span>, which reaches a depth of 7 miles.
\nb.<\/strong> Other trenches in the area include the Philippine Trench, Challenger Trench, Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, Peru-Chile Trench, and Tonga Trench.<\/p>\n

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Source-This post on Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ is based on the article “Massive earthquake hits Taiwan: What is the Ring of Fire?” published in “The Indian Express” on 4th April 2024. Why in the News? Recently, a massive earthquake hit Taiwan, resulting in the loss of many lives. Taiwan is prone to earthquakes because it… Continue reading Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-289381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}