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Near New Zealand is born a new volcano – scientists

Возле Новой Зеландии рождается новый вулкан - ученыеThrough New Zealand passes Pacific “fiery belt”.

Satellite observations of the Earth in the vicinity of New Zealand showed that in the sea off the Northern tip of the island is formed of igneous camera, which soon may create a new volcano, said in an article published in the journal Science Advances.

Through New Zealand passes Pacific “fiery belt” — band of volcanoes and tectonic faults in length 40 thousand kilometers. It surrounds the Pacific ocean, lying along coast southern and the North America to southern Alaska, then turns to Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia and ends near the island of New Guinea, New Zealand and the southwest Pacific.

It is in the “ring of Fire” is the vast majority of known volcanoes of a planet. There’s going 90% of all earthquakes on Earth. The last eruption of the volcano happened in New Zealand recently – in 2012, woke up the volcano of Tongariro, who played the role of Orodruin, the famous mount doom in the movie Lord of the Rings.

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