Geology of the Pacific Ocean Guinea, and New Zealand lie outside the andesite line. Outside of the andesite line, volcanism is explosive; the Pacific Ring of Fire is the world's foremost belt of explosive volcanism. The Ring of Fire is named after the several hundred active volcanoes that sit above the various subduction zones. In 2009, the deepest undersea eruption ever recorded occurred at the West Mata submarine volcano, a mile beneath the ocean, close to the Tonga-Kermadec Trench, within the Ring of Fire; it was filmed by the US Jason robotic submersible which descended over . The Pacific Ocean is the only ocean which
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