The Pacific Ring of Fire is living up to its name, with scientists tracking a chain of restless faults and volcanoes that ...

The Ring of Fire is an enormous belt of active and dormant volcanoes that surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean. It runs from southern Chile, up the west coast of the Americas, through the islands off ...

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 may have been one of the 10 largest ever recorded on the planet, but it wasn't totally unprecedented. The ...

As Hawaii prepares for a possible "explosive eruption," confusion has arisen about the relationship between Kilauea and the West Coast's "ring of fire" volcanoes. But experts say there's not cause for ...

If you’ve ever wondered why so many earthquakes and volcanoes seem to happen around the Pacific, there’s a reason! It’s all thanks to a fiery stretch of the planet called the "Ring of Fire." The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volcanoes in Alaska, Washington state, Oregon and Hawaii have been rumbling and even spewing lava, enough to spark a swarm of news ...

Understanding the origins of the Ring of Fire, the most seismically active place on Earth, is famously difficult as geologic evidence is destroyed in the process. Now a new study suggests that ...