Pacific Ring of Fire: From California to Alaska

The Ring of Fire represents an area where a lot of volcanic activities and earthquakes occur. As we can see from the map, the Ring of Fire is located in the basin of Pacific Ocean.


Some of the US states which are located on the Ring of Fire are California and Alaska. California is well known for earthquakes (it has some active volcanic as well), but because this blog is entirely dedicated to Alaska state, I will talk about volcanic activity in Alaska (I already discussed about Alaska’s earthquake in a preview post).

I was surprise to find out that 43 of the nation’s 53 active volcanoes are located in Alaska. That means that almost 82% from the population of active volcanoes are located in Alaska. The main reason for this concentration of volcanoes in Alaska is the presence of so called Ring of Fire where almost 50% of Alaska’s land is located.
Another interesting fact from www.alaska.net is that more than 10% from the World’s active volcanoes are located in Alaska. The last massive eruption was in 1992, in Mountains Spurr:



In 1990, Mt Kiska erupted as well:



Would you like to live in a place with active volcanoes? Personally, I think that would be exciting. I am not talking about having your house next to the volcano- that would be a threat for your live. I think it would be a good experience to live in a place where an active volcano is located. What do you think?

Resources:
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1) www.wikipedia.org
2) www.volcanoinfo.co.uk
3) http://www.alaska.net/~logjam/volcanoes.html