How did the ring of fire gets its name?

Question

Also, which volcano at the ring of fire erupted less than five years ago?
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Answer 1

The Ring of Fire got it's name because the Pacific ocean is surrounded by volcanoes in a circle, thus the "Ring of Fire". The volcanoes got there because of plate collisions and things.

The valcano that erupted five yrs ago is Okmok in Alaska

Answer 2

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions encircling the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, island arcs, and volcanic mountain ranges and/or plate movements. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt.

90% of the world's earthquakes and 81% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. The next most seismic region (5–6% of earthquakes and 17% of the world's largest earthquakes) is the Alpide belt which extends from Java to Sumatra through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the third most prominent earthquake belt.

The Ring of Fire is a direct consequence of plate tectonics and the movement and collisions of crustal plates [3]. The eastern section of the ring is the result of the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate being subducted beneath the westward moving South American Plate. A portion of the Pacific Plate along with the small Juan de Fuca Plate are being subducted beneath the North American Plate. Along the northern portion the northwestward moving Pacific plate is being subducted beneath the Aleutian Islands arc. Further west the Pacific plate is being subducted along the Kamchatka—Kurile Islands arcs on south past Japan. The southern portion is more complex with a number of smaller tectonic plates in collision with the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand. Indonesia lies between the Ring of Fire along the northeastern islands adjacent to and including New Guinea and the Alpide belt along the south and west from Sumatra, Java, Bali, Flores, and Timor. The famous and very active San Andreas Fault zone of California is a transform fault which offsets a portion of the East Pacific Rise under southwestern United States and Mexico. The motion of the fault generates numerous small earthquakes, at multiple times a day, most of which are too small to be felt.

Answer 3

The Ring of Fire got it's name because the Pacific ocean is surrounded by volcanoes in a circle, thus the "Ring of Fire". The volcanoes got there because of plate collisions and things.

Answer 4

The continental shores 'ringing' the Pacific Ocean exhibit many volcanoes due to tectonic plate collisions (etc.) and form a 'ring of fire.'

Answer 5

In Medieval times when sailors used to sail in pacific ocean then they used to see red ashes rising all around them and thus this phenomena gave them impression that they were in a ring of fire. They often used these signs for navigation in seas.

Answer 6

The ring of fire got its name from the frequent volcanic erruptions taking place in this region.

Answer 7

There a lot of volcanoes there, a lot of fire, a lot of earthquakes

Answer 8

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