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how do you describe the location of earthquake epicenters active volcanoes and moving plates in the pacific ring of fire​

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Answered by Anonymous
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The Ring of Fire, also referred to as the Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. Its length is approximately 40,000 kilometers (24,900 miles). Along much of the Ring of Fire, plates overlap at convergent boundaries called subduction zones.

Answered by mahajan789
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how do you describe the location of earthquake epicenters active volcanoes and moving plates in the pacific ring of fire​

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  1. The ring of hearthplace is a kind of 25,000-mile chain of volcanoes and seismically lively webweb sites that define the Pacific ocean.
  2. Also called the Circum-pacific belt, Ring of hearthplace lines the assembly factors of might also additionally tectonic plates, such as the Eurasian, North America, Indian, Australian, Philippine and different smaller plates, which all encircle the big pacific plate.
  3. The plates are continuously sliding past, colliding into, or transferring above or under every different.
  4. This motion outcomes in deep ocean trenches, volcanic eruptions, and earthquake epicenters alongside the limits in which the plates meet, known as fault line.
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