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 ...

Scientists tracking the Pacific’s most volatile margins are watching a familiar pattern sharpen into something more urgent, ...

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 ...

Earthquakes can also occur within a single tectonic plate, thus occurring on land rather than at sea. Since earthquakes ...

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 ...

Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in thousands of years. Scientists explain what it means and whether the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' is coming to life.

Understanding the origins of the Ring of Fire, the most seismically active place on Earth, is famously difficult as geologic evidence is destroyed in the process. Now a new study suggests that ...