The Pacific Ring of Fire is an arc stretching from New Zealand, along the eastern edge of Asia, north across the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and south along the coast of North and South America. The Ring of Fire is composed over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes are found especially in pacific, Pacific is the home of the famous Mayon Volcano where it was in the Philippines and Mt. Fiji in Japan.This huge ring of volcanic and seismic (earthquake) activity was noticed and described before the invention of the theory of plate tectonics theory, Ninety percent of the world's earthquakes and 80% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Pacific Ring of Fire. The next most seismic region (5–6% of earthquakes and 17% of the world's largest earthquakes) is the
. We now know that the Ring of Fire is located at the borders of the Pacific Plate and other major tectonic plates,
