(from the article `Andisol`) ...for less than 0.75 percent of all the nonpolar continental land area on Earth. Approximately reproducing the geographic distribution of volcanoes, ... ...separate lithospheric plates that diverge from one another and that are being subducted beneath the margins of the basin at different rates. This ... ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/r/51
Ring of Fire. The zone of earthquakes surrounding the Pacific Ocean which is called the Circum-Pacific belt--about 90% of the world's earthquakes occur there. The next most seismic region (5-6% of earthquakes) is the Alpide belt (extends from Mediterranean region, eastward through Turkey, Iran, and northern India. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21456
an active zone around the pacific ocean where plates of oceanic crust slip under the continental crusts - 4 out of 5 earthquakes take place along the pacific ring of fire - a huge number of volcanoes lie in the area too Found on https://sciencetrek.org/sciencetrek/topics/earthquakes/glossary.cfm