US EditionWhat Is the 'Ring of Fire'? This Week's Earthquake Just the Latest in This Region
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Around 75% of the world's active volcanoes are located along this strip and around 90% of global earthquakes occur
More than half of the world's earthquakes occur at the Ring of Fire. Kamchatka is also located in this region. WORLD explains the background to the strong earthquake with tsunami warning – and why there is no warning yet.
The Pacific Fire Belt shakes the Earth again. An earthquake of magnitude 8.8 shook the Russian peninsula of Kamtchatka on Wednesday 30, triggering tsunami alarms in the Pacific. The earthquake, with an epicenter 130 kilometers from the east coast and 18 kilometers deep, generated waves of up to four meters, forcing to evacuate areas of Russia, Japan, the United States, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Chile.Continue reading...
The powerful tremor felt this Wednesday on the Kamchatka peninsula is the second most powerful of the 21st century and the eighth in history
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