Ring of Fire world's 25 largest volcanic eruptions of the last 11,700 years occurred at volcanoes in the Ring of Fire. The famous and very active San Andreas Fault zone of California is a transform fault which offsets a portion of the East Pacific Rise under the southwestern United States and Mexico; the motion of the fault generates numerous small earthquakes, at multiple times a day, most of which are too small to be felt. The active Queen Charlotte Fault on the west coast of the Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, has generated three large earthquakes during the 20th century: a magnitude 7 event
Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey The Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey is a series of five documentary films following the decade-long Wanderjahr of the filmmaker/sibling partnership Lorne and Lawrence Blair. With financing from investors including the BBC and Ringo Starr, the Blair Brothers arrived in Indonesia from England in 1972. Then the Indonesian archipelago offered isolation for neolithic cultures and their indigenous beliefs. The Blair Brothers spent over two decades documenting the relationships of island ecology and their peoples. One result of the Blair's work was a PBS-distributed multi-media package- an oversized picture book, alongside the Emmy-nominated BBC/PBS