Ring of Fire Pacific plate is being subducted beneath the Aleutian Islands arc. Farther west, the Pacific plate is being subducted along the Kamchatka Peninsula arcs on south past Japan. The southern portion is more complex, with a number of smaller tectonic plates in collision with the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand; this portion excludes Australia, since it lies in the center of its tectonic plate. Indonesia lies between the Ring of Fire along the northeastern islands adjacent to and including New Guinea and the Alpide belt along the south and west from Sumatra, Java,
Ring of Fire (song) Good Thing Better. Ring of Fire (song) "Ring of Fire", or "The Ring of Fire", is a song written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore and recorded by Johnny Cash. The single appears on Cash's 1963 album, "". The song was originally recorded by June's sister, Anita Carter, on her Mercury Records album "Folk Songs Old and New" (1963) as "(Love's) Ring of Fire". "Ring of Fire" was ranked No. 4 on "CMT's 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music" in 2003 and #87 on "Rolling Stone"'s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In June 2014, Rolling