Why 90% of Earthquakes Happen Here: The Ring of Fire Explained?

Earthquakes happen mostly around Earth’s Ring of Fire because it’s like a busy kitchen where plates are constantly bumping into each other.

Imagine your plate is like a pancake, flat and smooth. Now, picture the Earth as being made up of many big plates, just like pancakes stacked on top of each other. These plates move around slowly, like when you push your pancake across the table.

The Ring of Fire is where most of these plates meet, it's like the busiest kitchen in town! When two plates bump into each other or one slides under another, they can cause big shakes, just like when you knock over a tower of blocks and everything falls down.

This happens all around Earth’s edge, near places like Japan, California, and Indonesia. That’s why so many earthquakes happen there. It's not magic; it's just plates moving around, causing little or big shakes in the ground, kind of like when your floor trembles after you drop a heavy book on the table.