Ring of Fire in 1929; a magnitude 8.1 in 1949 (Canada's largest recorded earthquake); and a magnitude 7.4 in 1970. The Ring of Fire is a direct result of plate tectonics: the movement and collisions of lithospheric plates. The eastern section of the ring is the result of the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate being subducted beneath the westward-moving South American Plate. The Cocos Plate is being subducted beneath the Caribbean Plate, in Central America. A portion of the Pacific Plate and the small Juan de Fuca Plate are being subducted beneath the North American Plate. Along the northern portion, the northwestward-moving
Ring of Fire (novel) Ring of Fire (novel) Ring of Fire is the English translation of L'anello di fuoco, the 2006 Italian fantasy novel for young people written by Pierdomenico Baccalario, with illustrations by Lacopo Bruno. "Ring of Fire" is Book One of the Century Quartet. The English translation by Leah D. Janeczko was published in New York by Random House, in 2009 (). It is held in 597 WorldCat libraries. The novel has been also been translated into French, German and Dutch. Book Two, "Star of Stone" (), set in New York City, was published in English in 2010. Book Three, "City of