Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting ... This movement results in deep ocean trenches, volcanic eruptions, and earthquake epicenters along the boundaries ...

A minor, 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey ...

Perched on the Pacific Ring of Fire - a belt of tectonic plates and volcanoes - Vanuatu is regularly jolted by earthquakes, though none in living memory as large as Tuesday’s disaster.

Perched on the Pacific ring of fire – a belt of tectonic plates and volcanoes – Vanuatu is regularly jolted by earthquakes, though none in living memory as large as Tuesday’s. The country is ...

Fracking uses water, sand and chemicals, blasted under super high pressure into rock formations, to release oil and natural gas trapped inside. Fracking has been linked to recent earthquakes in west ...

Globally, 81% of earthquakes occur along the world's earthquake belt, the circum-Pacific seismic belt, found along the rim of the Pacific Ocean. It has earned the nickname "Ring of Fire" for this ...