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Pacific, because it's circled by the "Rim of Fire".....also known as "Ring of Fire":
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/interior/RIM_of_FIRE.html http://geography.about.com/cs/earthquakes/a/ringoffire.htm http://www.crystalinks.com/rof.html ....Plus there's the "Hawaiian Hot Spot", where magma comes up thru the center of the plate to create the Hawaiian Islands. The plate moves over the hot spot, causing new islands to be formed, like a chain. http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/haw_formation.html |
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Earthquakes are more likely to occur in the Pacific due to alot of tectonic plate boundaries...when they move around and settle in they cause earthquakes... the Pacific Ring of Fire is the belt of volcanoes formed fromthese boundaries, these aren't the boundaries...
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