The Ring of Fire stretches from the southern tip of South America, up through North America's west coast, across the Bering Strait, down through Japan and the Philippines, and all the way to New Zealand, even linking back through volcanic regions of Antarctica.

A dramatic natural event has shaken Russia’s Far East. On Wednesday morning, the Kamchatka Peninsula’s powerful Klyuchevskoy volcano erupted. This eruption occurred soon after a powerful earthquake off the eastern coast of Russia.