Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Ring of Fire. Click image to see large version. Courtesy USGS The Ring of Fire is a zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that encircles the basin of the Pacific Ocean. It is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches and volcanic mountain ranges. A number of land and sea features are in the Ring of Fire: (here listed clockwise) New Zealand Kermadec Trench Tonga Trench Bougainville Trench Java Trench Indonesia Philippines Philippine Trench Marianas Trench Izu Bonin Trench Ryukyu Trench Japan Japan Trench Kurile Trench Kamchatka Aleutian Islands Aleutian Trench Alaska Cascade Range California Mexico Middle America Trench Guatemala Colombia Ecuador Peru Peru-Chile Trench External Link Map of the Ring of Fire This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.