2 min read The Ring of Fire is a roughly 25,000-mile chain of volcanoes and seismically active sites that outline the Pacific Ocean. Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces ...

which is about 13 percent of all active volcanoes in the world. We are sitting on two entangled rings of fire: The Circum-Pacific and the Circum-Mediterranean, two volcanic belts that knot the globe.