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 ...

Did you know the Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped zone around the Pacific Ocean, has about 750 to 915 active or dormant ...

Volcanoes in Alaska, Washington state, Oregon and Hawaii have been rumbling and even spewing lava, enough to spark a swarm of news stories. But despite the jolts and temblors, geologists say there's ...

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 Pacific 'Ring of Fire' is surging into public consciousness once again, following recent volcanic headlines from the ...

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 ...

The July 30 8.8 magnitude earthquake near the Kamchatka Peninsula has triggered a series of volcanic activity in Russia. Officials report the rare event of six eruptions since the earthquake. The Ring ...

The Axial Seamount—a volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and a mile underwater—is slowly showing signs of an impending eruption. Although less well-known than other volcanic giants of ...

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Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active regions that encircle the Pacific Ocean. By Victoria Kim Hundreds of millions of ...