The colorful
eruption of the Villarrica volcano in Chile
Chile is crossed by the Pacific "fire
belt" - a
strip of volcanoes and
tectonic faults 40 thousand kilometers long. It
encircles the Pacific Ocean, running along the coast of South and North America to southern Alaska, then turns to Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia and ends in the area of the island of New Guinea, New Zealand and southwestern Oceania.
eruption - извержение
belt - пояс
strip - полоса
tectonic faults - тектонические разломы
encircle - окружать
