The Pacific Coast is tiptoeing around not one but two of the largest seismic triggers of the region’s modern history.

through the Indian Ocean, between Australia and Antarctica, and north through the Pacific Ocean. Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here ...

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 ... the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including ...

Volcanoes and earthquake activity often occur in similar places in narrow zones of activity, as shown on the map. These zones include: the Pacific Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean the Mid ...