Ring of Fire Kamchatka Peninsula Pictured above are a pair of volcanoes known as Tolbachik—the flat-topped Plosky (Flat) Tolbachik on the left of the image and the majestic Ostry (Sharp) Tolbachik on the right, which soars 12,080 feet above the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia. These are just two of roughly 300 volcanoes scattered through the region; 29 of them, including the Tolbachik complex, are still active. In fact, there is so much volcanic activity here that UNESCO calls the peninsula 'one of the most outstanding volcanic regions in the world,' and has designated it a World Heritage site. The Kamchatka Peninsula juts out from the Russian mainland between the Sea of Okhotsk to the west and the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea to the east. The sparsely populated peninsula and its numerous volcanoes makes up part of the Ring of Fire , a chain of volcanoes along the border of the Pacific Ocean that account for 90% of the world's seismic activity . Wild, remote, and primal, Kamchatka is home to more than just volcanoes. Among the abundant wildlife that call the peninsula home are the arctic fox, tundra wolf, reindeer, lynx, huge Chukotka moose, and the Kamchatka brown bear that can tip the scales at 1,400 pounds. A map including the Kamchatka Peninsula (shaded red is shown below. The Arctic Ocean is visible to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the east. Russia is the darker colored region with southern Asia and Eastern Europe are the lighter colored land masses.

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Ring of Fire Kamchatka Peninsula

Pictured above are a pair of volcanoes known as Tolbachik—the flat-topped Plosky (Flat) Tolbachik on the left of the image and the majestic Ostry (Sharp) Tolbachik on the right, which soars 12,080 feet above the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia. These are just two of roughly 300 volcanoes scattered through the region; 29 of them, including the Tolbachik complex, are still active. In fact, there is so much volcanic activity here that UNESCO calls the peninsula 'one of the most outstanding volcanic regions in the world,' and has designated it a World Heritage site.

The Kamchatka Peninsula juts out from the Russian mainland between the Sea of Okhotsk to the west and the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea to the east. The sparsely populated peninsula and its numerous volcanoes makes up part of the Ring of Fire, a chain of volcanoes along the border of the Pacific Ocean that account for 90% of the world's seismic activity. Wild, remote, and primal, Kamchatka is home to more than just volcanoes. Among the abundant wildlife that call the peninsula home are the arctic fox, tundra wolf, reindeer, lynx, huge Chukotka moose, and the Kamchatka brown bear that can tip the scales at 1,400 pounds.

A map including the Kamchatka Peninsula (shaded red is shown below. The Arctic Ocean is visible to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the east. Russia is the darker colored region with southern Asia and Eastern Europe are the lighter colored land masses.

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MORE ON THE VOLCANIC NATURE OF THE PACIFIC RING OF FIRE

Another active portion of the PACIFIC RING OF FIRE is located along the western coast of South America. The volcanoes pictured below are part of the ANDES MOUNTAIN RANGE that runs north to south for the length of the continent. Of course not all of the peaks in the Andes are volcanoes, but many are. And a number of these volcanoes are active.

Note the almost perfect cone shapes of these Andean volcanoes.

If you haven’t noticed, volcanoes are fearsome when erupting. Temperatures are high enough to melt rock into liquid MAGMA that ‘flows’ down the side of the volcano, scorching everything in its path.

THE MOST POWERFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE ERUPTION IN HISTORY

Mount Tambora, in the Indian Ocean erupted, erupted in 1815, and according to scientists, was possibly the most intense eruption in recorded history, The blast was heard and felt hundreds of miles away and killed thousands of people in a short amount of time. Eventually, however, the blast would affect literally every person on earth for the next three years as a massive amount of debris was thrown into the atmosphere. This ash, dust, and rock particles blocked sunlight and caused earth’s climate to cool between 3 and 6 degrees.