Something extraordinary is happening along the horseshoe-shaped belt that wraps around the Pacific Ocean. The Ring of Fire, home to three quarters of the world's active volcanoes and responsible for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volcanoes in Alaska, Washington state, Oregon and Hawaii have been rumbling and even spewing lava, enough to spark a swarm of news ...

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The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 may have been one of the 10 largest ever recorded on the planet, but it wasn't totally unprecedented. The ...

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A convergence of volcanic eruptions, seismic clustering research, and overdue fault lines has scientists paying closer attention to the Pacific Ring of Fire than at any point in recent memory. The ...