the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca, Antarctic, Indian, Australian, Philippine ...

The offshore quake had a depth of 10 km (6 miles) and was off the town of San Francisco in Leyte province, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said in a bulletin.

Philippine plates, and plenty of other, smaller plates too, all of which surround the vast Pacific plate. The result is… well, it’s what gives the Ring of Fire its name: volcanoes, and ...