The map highlights in yellow the zones of the Pacific Plate that are being pulled apart by the sinking tectonic plate along the Pacific Ring of Fire.

The so-called Ring of Fire is an area surrounding the Pacific tectonic plate where many of the world's earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur. Advanced Search Home ...

Hidden deep beneath the Pacific ... scientists to map the interior structure of the Earth with unprecedented detail. What they found was unexpected—zones resembling ancient tectonic plates ...

2 min read The Ring of Fire is a roughly 25,000-mile chain of volcanoes and seismically active sites that outline the Pacific ... east of Guam, the 7-mile-deep Mariana Trench formed when one ...