Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca ...

The melt may have also increased the rate at which the North American and Eurasian plates spread apart by as much as 40 percent. Read More: 5 of the Most Explosive Volcanic Eruptions The study may ...

A recent study challenges the long-held belief of the Indian plate smoothly sliding under the Eurasian plate. Seismic data reveals the Indian plate is splitting in two beneath Tibet, with the ...