Talk:Pacific Ring of Fire

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[edit] Challenger Deep

I think Challenger Deep should be mentioned on this page because it is refered to in the map - 10 February 2006 (date added by Hardscarf)

Challenger Deep added with this update. Urania3 07:32, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Um

um you guys dont have all the volcanoes of the ring of fire there is 452 --The previously unsigned comment was left by 207.200.116.202 on 22:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

No one said we did. Add some if you'd like. Incidentally, I'd like to know where you got the number 452 from. Urania3 01:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

I think you should have more quotes on japan.--The previously unsigned comment was left by 24.2.23.54 on 14:34, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Uhm, why? Urania3 14:37, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

uhm, what is the ring of fire showing? is it showing where active volcanos are? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.142.183.192 (talk) 01:32, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Plagiarism

i'm doing a project on the ring of fire, and I was just on another site. This has almost word-for-word what that person wrote. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.24.243 (talk • contribs) 01:54, 10 November 2006216.174.135.164 20:38, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

What site? Most likely a mirror of Wikipedia or a copy of Wikipedia content. Vsmith 02:37, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Helpful

im doin a report and i would just like to thank you guys it s really cool and helpful sencerly, 4~4

[edit] Pacific Rim/Ring of Fire?

So what's the difference between the Rim of Fire and the Ring of Fire? Are they just different names for the same thing? --Jack 14:36, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

One is a Political/Economic Zone, the other is a geological feature. Although they cover roughly the same geographical region - they are not the same thing. Australia is part of the Pacific Rim, but it is not on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Malathos 18:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Then perhaps this should be pointed out in the article, since "Pacific Rim of Fire" redirects here.--Jack 04:45, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, I wasn't actually aware of that redirection, Now I see that Pacific Rim of Fire redirects to Pacific Ring of Fire - which is correct. My comments were in regard to the Pacific Rim - which is a separate article. Apologies for not reading your question correctly. There is no difference between Rim of Fire and Ring of Fire. The Pacific Rim (no fire) is the economic/political reference and correctly has it's own page. As you say, It may be worth putting a disambiguation at the top of the page to clarify matter
  • More info*

Yeah, this isn't enough information. It doesn't explain exactly what the ring of Fire is, how it got the name, anything.

[edit] hey add xtra info

The ring of fire The Ring of Fire or the circum-Pacific (seismic) belt is a zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 90% of the world’s earthquakes and 81% of the world’s biggest earthquakes happen along the Ring of Fire. Also the Ring of Fire is home to over 75% of world’s active and dormant (sleeping) volcanoes. The Ring of Fire stretches 40,000km around the Pacific and Nazca tectonic plates, along the boarders with the North/South-American, Eurasian, Philippine and Indo- Australian plates. You can find Hawaii exactly in the middle. Here you can see the position of the ring of fire in relation to the different plates and continents.

There are a lot of oceanic trenches (zeetroggen) and island arcs (island-groups positioned in a circle to each other) in the Ring of Fire. The trenches are because the Ring of fire is positioned on the tectonic boarders, this is where the different plates move against each other which can cause plates to move up or down. The island arcs are a result of big volcanoes the highest points of the volcano are in a circle, and when the volcano grows these points become islands. The main issues: the volcanoes and earthquakes are a result of the tectonic boarders: where there is a hole between the plates, volcanoes rise. And where the plates move towards and along each other, this causes vibrations. The Ring of Fire is a direct consequence of plate tectonics (shape of the plates) and the movement and collisions of these plates. For instance the eastern section of the ring is the result of the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate being pressed beneath the westward moving South American Plate. And there are a lot of other contacts with plates along the Ring of Fire. The southern part of the Ring of Fire is the most complex part, here there are collisions between a number of smaller tectonic plates and the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand. Indonesia is especially dangerous because it lies between the ring of fire and the Alpide belt, the two worst, earthquake areas. The earthquake and tsunami in December 2004 near Sumatra were actually a result of the movements of the Alpide belt, and not of the Ring of Fire.

The Ring of Fire is home to a lot of volcanoes and mountains, these are:

  • The Andes, and Cotopaxi and Azul volcanoes in South America. These were created by the Nazca plate colliding with the South American plate.
  • The Mexican volcanoes of Popocatepetl and Paricutun. A result of the little Cocos plate crashing into the North American plate. These volcanoes suddenly rose up from a cornfield in 1943.
  • The Cascades and the infamous Mount Saint Helens, between Northern California and British Columbia. Saint Helens erupted in 1980. These are created by the Pacific, Juan de Fuca, and Gorda plates.
  • Alaska's Aleutian Islands are growing as the Pacific plate hits the North American plate. The deep Aleutian Trench has been created at the subduction zone (where one plate slides above another) with a maximum depth of 7679 meters.
  • From Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to Japan, the subduction of the Pacific plate under the Eurasian plate has created Japanese islands and volcanoes (such as Mt. Fuji).
  • The volcanoes in the New Guinea and Micronesian areas. These exist where the Indo-Australian plate subducts under the Pacific plate. The final section of the Ring of Fire exists where the Indo-Australian plate subducts under the Pacific plate and has created. Near New Zealand, the Pacific Plate slides under the Indo-Australian plate.

And these are far from all! There are 452 volcanoes in the Ring of Fire! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.169.204.100 (talk) 08:28, 8 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] soufriere hills

Can someone tell me if the Soufriere Hills is located along the ring of fire please thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.233.16.182 (talk) 01:05, 29 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] more

More information about the ring of fire is needed like an average of how many erupt during a year?

[edit] history...

can we get a little history about when this term was created, and who created it? Kingturtle 01:32, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why

Why is the ring of fire soooooo important other than having a bunch of earthquakes and vocanoes in it????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.208.151.204 (talk) 23:01, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alaska

How come there are no mentions of Alaska in here? It only has a greater length of geography then the rest of the US in the Ring of Fire. Alyeska (talk) 22:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)