volcano

How do volcanoes function beneath their rocky surfaces?

“We have seven active volcanoes; we have landslides; we have tsunamis; we have thousands of miles of active faults.”

It can even be “quite literally an edge,” as when a man stands on the edge of an active volcano.

Made up of thousands of islands, the Philippines sits in the so-called Ring of Fire, a seismic arc of volcanoes and fault lines around the Pacific basin that also includes Indonesia and Japan.

It is located on the geologically unstable "Ring of Fire" - so called because of the high number of earthquakes and volcanoes that occur here.