Ring of Fire

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Ring of Fire is a zone along the edge of the Pacific Ocean that has many volcanoes and earthquakes. This horseshoe-shaped belt stretches about 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers) from New Zealand northwest to the Philippines, northeast to Japan, east to Alaska, and south to Oregon, California, Mexico, and the Andes Mountains of South America.

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