Horseshoe Ring
Horseshoe Ring
The Ring of Fire: If a problem arose
The Ring of Fire is a horseshoe shaped line of volcanoes and deep ocean trenches surrounding Pacific Rim: from New Zealand via Tonga, New Guinea, Indonesia, Japan, the island chain of the Aleutian Alaska, along the west coast of Canada, the United States, Mexico and Central America, ending at the southern tip of Chile will meet Argentina, near Cape Horn at the tip of South America.
While doing research for my novel Tsunami adventure, I found this area very unstable earthquake is called the ring of fire for a good reason. 90% earthquakes in the world, over 70% of eruptions of the volcano, and most tsunamis on Earth are generated in the Pacific basin, where ocean (Ground sea) plates collide with and without rest slide under the continental (Ground) plates.
The lithosphere is the name given to the crust is also part of the upper mantle of the earth, which is the layer just beneath the bark. In the theory of plate tectonics, the lithosphere is divided into pieces called tectonic plates 15-20. Geologists does not seem to agree on the exact number. The plates vary in size from a few thousand square kilometers of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. The portion of the crust of continental plates average about 22 miles thick. oceanic crustal plate 4 miles thick on average. thickness average of the entire lithosphere is about 75 miles. The temperature at the base of the lithosphere is over 2300 F.
The tectonic plates float in the viscous material that is the hot asthenosphere, upper mantle or lower the Earth, which is estimated at about 250 km depth. The plates are floating constant, albeit very slow movement. The rate of drift of tectonic plates ranges from about 1 inch per year to a maximum of 6 inches year. Plates tend to fall into the ocean and slowly sliding under the continental plates. This process is called subduction, and is the underlying cause tremors earth, volcanoes and tsunamis in the Ring of Fire.
There are many subduction zones where oceanic plates converge with continental plates, All the Pacific Rim, home of the Ring of Fire. In fact, the Ring of Fire is a product of this process of subduction. When an oceanic plate slides under, or tubes, a continental plate, some little slips well below the earth's crust in the lower mantle, where the temperature reaches 2000-4000 degrees F. The dense material of the oceanic plate melts under the intense heat, it combines with water molecules and rises into the upper mantle and through cracks and joints in the crust as magma feeding the volcanoes and the creation of mountain ranges surrounding the Pacific Basin.
During millions of years of seismic activity, the Ring of Fire has built a long list of mountain ranges and volcanoes known. Chain Cascades, Washington, Oregon and Northern California with several peaks over 14,000 feet is a good example. Among the many Cascade volcanoes are Mt Baker, Mt Adams, Mt Rainier, Mount St. Helens, Mt. Hood, Mt Shasta and Mt. Lassen.
Some peaks in the Andes of South America more 22,000 feet in the Andes are home to more than 200 volcanoes, of which 36 had one or more eruptions over the last 200 years. Among the mountains the largest and most active. Cotopaxi Ecuador, Ojos del Salado, on the border between Chile and Argentina, Mt. Gualatiri Chile and San Pedro Licancabur / Bolivia.
Alaska has some the most active volcanoes in the world. El Monte. Redoubt erupted in 1989 spewing ash 45,000 feet high. When a pen KLM aircraft flew at 30,000 feet, its reactors ingested the volcanic ash and flamed out. The plane fell 13,000 feet without power before restarting the computer, Finally, engines and landed safely in Anchorage. All four engines had to be replaced. Mt Redoubt addition, some of the most active volcanoes in Alaska Mt Spurr Novarupta Mt, and Mt. Katmai.
The Aleutian Islands are an arc of 300 small volcanic islands extending from south-western Alaska in 1200 miles Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. There are 57 active volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands, 82 eruptions have been recorded there since 1900.
Japan's major volcanoes include Mt Bandai, which had a catastrophic eruption in 1980, corresponding to the mountain. St. Helens burst intensity and quantity material ejected. Mount Unzen in Kyushu island erupted in 1991, killing 43 people. The explosion of 1792 was more disastrous Unzen volcanic eruption in Japan, killing 15,000. Mount Fuji and Mt. Usu erupted recently.
Krakatoa and Tambora in Indonesia, MTS. Pinatubo and Mayon in the Philippines and Rabaul in New Guinea have been explosions that have killed thousands of historical people and destroyed thousands of homes.
The process of subduction of the Pacific region, in addition to create chains of mountains and volcanoes of fuel because earthquakes on land and under the sea, earthquakes and submarine start tsunamis. Together, these three destructive forces – earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis – have taken many millions of lives. The Ring of Fire has been a major force in shaping the topography of the planet, but it has been and remains the place where the shoe pinches.
About the Author
Gordon Gumpertz, author of TSUNAMI, is a working novelist who writes suspense-packed adventure novels featuring believable characters caught up in the dynamic forces of natural and man-made disasters. His books achieve a sense of immediacy and realism through extensive background research. For more, visit
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