2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and a network of sensors is needed to detect it. Setting up the communications infrastructure to issue timely warnings is an even bigger problem, particularly in a relatively impoverished part of the world. Tsunamis are more frequent in the Pacific Ocean than in other oceans because of earthquakes in the "Ring of Fire". Although the extreme western edge of the Ring of Fire extends into the Indian Ocean (the point where the earthquake struck), no warning system exists in that ocean. Tsunamis there are relatively rare despite earthquakes being relatively frequent in Indonesia. The last major tsunami was caused by
Ring of Fire (radio program) show from the Pensacola studio, while Kennedy operates out of the Pace University School of Law in White Plains, New York. Seder's studio is near the New York Times building in New York City. "Ring of Fire"s executive producer is Scott Millican, with producer Farron Cousins. The program's theme song is "Ring of Fire," originally by Johnny Cash, performed by Social Distortion. The facility space was allocated in December 2003. "Ring of Fire" aired its first broadcast on May 1, 2004 on the newly founded Air America radio network, and remained there until the network closed almost six years later.