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Most of the largest earthquakes strike the Pacific rim
About 81 percent of the planet's largest earthquakes occur along the rim of the Pacific Ocean, in the Ring of Fire.
Why it is true
Scientists call it the circum-Pacific seismic belt, the world's greatest earthquake belt. It follows plate boundaries where oceanic crust is sinking beneath another plate.
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