The Pacific Ring of Fire: Nature's Greatest Threat

Dive into the heart of the Ring of Fire! Explore its intense geological activity, tectonic intricacies, and historical cataclysms. Discover the bendy horseshoe shaping our planet's destiny. Don't miss out!

[kelton]

90% of all youtube videos are narrated by Simon

[feiryfella]

Simon, it was the BOXING DAY earthquake. BOXING DAY is 26th DECEMBER!

[joelam]

I absolutely love all your documentaries. They are the best on You Tube. Please keep up the Great Work you do. Your narration is Perfect and so enjoyable to listen to.

[wildflashback]

GOD DAMMIT I can’t get away from Simon 😂😂 everywhere I go. THERE HE HIS

[mrivantchernegovski]

Taupo in New Zealand is actually lake Taupo that formed in the crater of the volcano and is huge, Also the Christchurch earthquake in 2010 in the south Island of New Zealand nearly flattened the whole city, i like the Nissan R35 GTR you used in the car crash demo lol

[rachelbarrie]

Living in New Zealand (Auckland in fact) Im fascinated with our tectonic plates and that of the Ring of Fire. Nature is not done with us and having recently had notifications from our specific app that Lake Taupo is waking up, is even more terrifying ... but interesting at the same time. We are long overdue for a volcanic eruption, finger's crossed no one dies because of it.

[KristenRowenPliske]

I started this video without looking at the channel name so Simon’s voice surprised me. “Factboy?!?”

I remember watching the news about Mt. St. Helen’s. We lived in Texas (still do) & we might have gotten a little ash, maybe a bit to raise smog levels. Not sure about that.

[TheBlindAndTheBeautiful]

As someone who lives in Washington state volcanoes and earthquakes are just kind of an expected thing here. Along with the great fires in the east. In high school I even spent some time up working on Mt. St. helens and it was a pretty cool experience. The ape caves up there are something to behold for sure. Its one of those places you just look around and are like this should not exist and yet it is simply beautiful up there. As a specialist who works in this field and is fully aware of the conditions that exist... Be scared if you live in Western WA or Oregon. We are overdue for a major earthquake and/or tsunami at some point soon. I'm not speaking from maybes or folk lore here. I'm speaking from actual evidence and preparation for this eventuality. State agencies can only do so much. Community groups can only do so much. The people need to be ready to do their part as well when this eventuality happens. And videos like this should make us all the more aware of them being very real and very possible. Good vid Simon and team

[paparaiski]

Oh my Jesus its you again! How channels do you need man!

[dominiclowther]

Isn’t it December 26th 2004 not September for the tsunami

[hibaakaiko]

So, when i was in school a teacher taught us that the ring of fire is more like a 'bathtub ring". If you just trace the edges of the pacific, you'll find earthquakes and volcanoes as if something nasty is being deposited by the ocean.

[thelonesculler]

Wasn't the 2004 Tsunami on Boxing Day rather than September 26th? I was in Malaysia for Christmas as it happened and was on Penang island days afterwards

[anxietearidden]

how do I keep discovering new Simon channels?

[BardovBacchus]

I remember the summer of 1980 as a very dusty summer, and I grew up in northern Illinois. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake coincidentally occurred on my birthday

[adamloverin]

As a Californian, I still don't understand why this channel highlights Simon's right ear.

[perrydowd]

Jesus Simon!
Another channel? I can't keep up with them all.

Heyy!

You're not a bott are you?
🤨

[jackmanley]

One side effect of the Great Kanto Earthquake: During the aftermath, a young man named Heigo Kurosawa took his younger brother, Akira, around the destruction, believing it important that they both witness the tragedy firsthand. That younger brother would grow up to become legendary film director Akira Kurosawa, and he credited this experience as being foundational to his life and his art.

[phranerphamily]

I live in Western Washington and have for most of my life. I was 15 when Mount St Helens blew up and I had happened to travel to Eastern Washington to visit my grandmother that weekend. We didn't hear the explosion on that side like they did in Western Washington although most people just thought it was someone letting off fireworks. But what we did see was dark dark clouds moving in from the southwest. We thought it was a thunderstorm coming but by the time it reached Ellensburg it was generating its own weather. There were arcs of green and red lightning going between the roadway and the cloud that was everywhere. There was fine ash everywhere. I still have a jar of that. It was like gray snow. After being stuck in Ellensburg for 3 days. The state patrol agreed to accompany three Greyhound buses over the pass on i-90. The trick was you had to get to Ellensburg and many people driving their cars their air filters were clogging up with ash almost instantly. Every single one of those buses was full and I was on one of them. We had to stop three times before reaching the west side for the driver to put a new air filter on so that the ash wouldn't clog the motor. I got to miss a few days of school and I have a good story to tell but honestly it's not something I would like to live through again. And then you mentioned Fukushima which living in western Washington that's the way the current on the Pacific goes so we are still seeing the aftermath of the devastation that happened in Japan because we're all connected up in this part of the world

[andrew]

Oh hell yeah, 50 minutes of volcanism with Factboy!

[michaelclark]

I'm at work right now and I can see both Mt. Lassen and Mt. Shasta close by. I see this video recommended and I was instantly pressing play.