Ring of Fire to the south is the famous Klyuchi volcanic group, comprising the twin volcanic cones of Kliuchevskoi and Kamen, the huge volcanic complexes of Tolbachik and Ushkovsky, and a number of other large stratovolcanoes. The only active volcano in the central belt is found west of here, the huge remote Ichinsky. Farther south, the eastern belt continues to the southern slope of Kamchatka, topped by loads of stratovolcanoes, continuing onto the Kuril Islands, and southwards into Japan. About 10% of the world's active volcanoes are found in Japan, which lies in a zone of extreme crustal instability. They are formed by
Ring of Fire (anthology) Ring of Fire (anthology) Ring of Fire is the third published book by editor-author-historian Eric Flint of the 1632 series, an alternate history series begun in the novel "1632" (February 2000). The "Ring of Fire" is both descriptive of the cosmic event as experienced by the series' characters, but also is at times used as the name for the series itself. The series is set in war-torn Europe during the middle of the Thirty Years' War. "Ring of Fire" is a collection of short stories —half by a variety of established science fiction authors invited into the setting, half fan-fiction