The Interesting TV Show

I woke up at 7 o'clock and flicked on the TV. I found a channel on something that I didn't even know existed. The Ring Of Fire. It is also called the Circum-Pacific Belt or Circum- Pacific seismic Belt. The Ring Of Fire is an area of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in a circle around the Pacific Ocean. It's 40, 000 km and shaped as a horseshoe. The Ring Of Fire has 452 volcanoes and over 75% of the world's active volcanoes. Maple Ridge is also on the Ring Of Fire. The person on TV, told me about volcanoes. Did you know that they are formed by shifting of the Pacific and Philippine plates? Minor volcanoes happen almost daily in one part of the country, causing shaking of some buildings. Major eruptions don't happen as often. The most famous in the twentieth century were the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. 130,000 people died when it exploded. The second popular one was called the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. 6,434 people died. There are also such things as undersea earthquakes that explode on the Japanese coastline, causing tsunamis. Mount Bandai is one of Japan’s volcanoes. It rises above the north shore of Lake Inawashiro, and is formed of many overlapping stratovolcanoes. Much of Mount Bandai is missing because of the collapse of Ko-Bandai, a volcano. Ko-Bandai erupted in 1888, it buried several villages, and formed lots of large lakes.