The Ring of Fire is an enormous belt of active and dormant volcanoes that surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean. It runs from southern Chile, up the west coast of the Americas, through the islands off ...
Record Number of Simultaneous Eruptions Shakes Scientists' Understanding 47 volcanoes were in continuing eruption status as of 2 May 2025, marking one of the highest active volcano counts in recorded ...
If you’ve ever wondered why so many earthquakes and volcanoes seem to happen around the Pacific, there’s a reason! It’s all thanks to a fiery stretch of the planet called the "Ring of Fire." The ...
Natural disasters affect many parts of the world, but few countries experience them as frequently and as intensely as ...
The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 may have been one of the 10 largest ever recorded on the planet, but it wasn't totally unprecedented. The ...
Lo c Vanderkluysen, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a July 28 Live Science article about the Pacific Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped belt of volcanoes ...