the pacific ring of fire is very active right now. earthquakes. volcanoes. there's every reason to think it's just about to explode. i'd stay away from it if you can...

that's the area up the west coast, around alaska and down the east coast of asia, through japan and indonesia.

i know i came off as unbelievably nerdy sometimes, but i did a project on plate tectonics in high school...

we know the ring of fire is connected. when stuff starts to move in one place, the whole thing shifts. an earthquake in alaska could erupt a volcano in japan, sort of thing (which appears to have just happened).

but there's been some very deep earthquakes and some volcanic activity recently in some dead volcanoes, indicating that the activity is pretty substantial and could produce some very large shocks - both in terms of the ground moving and in terms of volcanoes coming up. so, not a good place to be right now...