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Recently, a 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck western Indonesia.
- Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, causing it to experience frequent earthquakes.
- Indonesia is at the meeting point of three major continental plates – the Pacific, the Eurasian, and the Indo-Australian plates – and the much smaller Philippine plate.
About Ring of Fire:
- The Ring of Fire also referred to as the Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.
- It is a horseshoe-shaped belt about 40,000km long and about 500 km wide that contains two-thirds of the world’s total volcanoes and 90% of Earth’s earthquakes.
Image: India Today
