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The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) [note 1] is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes. It is about 40,000 km (25,000 mi) long [ 1 ] and up to about 500 km (310 mi) wide, [ 2 ] and surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean .
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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Volcanoes of California. It includes Volcanoes that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
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These are the volcanoes monitored by the California Volcano Observatory, in order of highest to lowest risk assessment. Mt Shasta. According to USGS risk assessment of the volcanoes in CalVO's region, the following volcanoes were ranked "very high threat potential". [4] Mount Shasta in far-northern California, north of Redding
Mount Tehama (also called Brokeoff Volcano or Brokeoff Mountain) is an eroded andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the Cascade Range in Northern California. Part of the Lassen volcanic area , its tallest remnant, Brokeoff Mountain, is itself the second highest peak in Lassen Volcanic National Park and connects to the park's ...
Reports of earthquakes and volcano eruptions along the Ring of Fire might lead some to believe that the level of activity in recent months is above average.
Many large, long-runout landslides originating on Cascade volcanoes have engulfed valleys tens of kilometers from their sources, and some of the areas affected now support large populations. The Cascade Volcanoes are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes and associated mountains around the Pacific Ocean. The Cascade Volcanoes ...