The Pacific plate collides with and is subducted under four other crustal plates. The area where this happens has lots of volcanic activity. This area is called the Ring of Fire.
This is a place under the Pacific Ocean and it has numerous
volcanic eruptions and earthquakes and so this region is called the Ring of
Fire. In this place there are about 450 active and dormant volcanoes and it is
almost 75 percent of the volcanoes present in our earth.
