Earthquake in Taiwan. What is the Pacific Ring of Fire, the place where most earthquakes occur

Taiwan is regularly rocked by earthquakes due to its position on the Pacific Ring of Fire, writes CNN.

An earthquake of 7.4 struck Taiwan on Wednesday, the largest in the last 25 years, writes the website of American television news. In this part of the world where Taiwan is also located are the most active volcanoes in the world. It is also where most earthquakes occur, as tectonic plates push against each other, causing sudden releases of energy that result in earthquakes, the source said.

The “ring” stretches along an arc of 40,000 kilometers from the Pacific plate boundary, to smaller plates such as the Philippine Sea, to the Cocos and Nazca plates, which border the edge of the Pacific Ocean.

People most at risk of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes live in places along the Ring of Fire, including Chile, Japan, the US west coast, the Solomon Islands, to the west coast of North and South America .

Seven deaths had been registered by Wednesday, around 11 o’clock (Romanian time), over 700 injured and hundreds of buildings collapsed.