Mayon Volcano “Pacific Ring Of Fire”
Posted on May 19, 2007 - Filed Under Mayon Volcano
Mayon Volcano is one of the great treasures of the Philippines, because of its almost perfectly-shaped cone, i consider it as an addition to the Seven Wonders of the World. As a Filipino (pinoy to my fellow Filipinos) i am proud to have such wonder here in the Philippines, but did you know that Mayon is included in the Pacific Ring of Fire? Yes it is, and below is the excerpt from Wikipedia’s website:
[quote]The Pacific Ring of Fire is an area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions encircling the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, island arcs, and volcanic mountain ranges and/or plate movements. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt.[/quote]
The Philippine’s Tectonic Plate is located just beneath the Pacific Ocean, it’s just east of the Philippines.
Mayon is considered as a composite volcano (stratovolcano).
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