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The 'Ring of Fire' is located in which ocean?
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The 'Ring of Fire' (or Circum-Pacific Belt) is a horseshoe-shaped seismic belt stretching approximately 40,000 kilometers along the rim of the Pacific Ocean. It accounts for roughly 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes and about 90% of global earthquakes.
The 'Ring of Fire' (or Circum-Pacific Belt) is a horseshoe-shaped seismic belt stretching approximately 40,000 kilometers along the rim of the Pacific Ocean. It accounts for roughly 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes and about 90% of global earthquakes.
Geographic plate tectonics boundary: Pacific Plate interacting with subduction zones involving the North American, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, Nazca, and Cocos plates.
Houses roughly 452 volcanoes along the Pacific basin perimeter.
Traced along subduction boundaries forming deep oceanic trenches like the Mariana Trench.
High seismic activity driven by convergent plate boundaries and subduction zones.
Option A (Atlantic Ocean) features the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a divergent divergent-boundary spreading center rather than the subduction-dominated Ring of Fire.
Option B (Indian Ocean) experiences seismic activity primarily along the Sunda Trench and Carlsberg Ridge, not classified as the Ring of Fire.
Option D (Arctic Ocean) has low tectonic subduction rates compared to the massive Pacific basin rim.
C is correct тАФ The Ring of Fire encircles the basin of the Pacific Ocean.
Link Pacific tectonic subduction to island arc formation (e.g., Japan, Philippines, Aleutian Islands) and tsunami genesis frequently asked in RRB and SSC geography sections.