BREAKING: Massive 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes North Pacific Ocean | World News

According to seismic data shared by the National Center for Seismology (NCS), a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred in the North Pacific Ocean on Friday morning.
The earthquake occurred at 08:14:15 IST at a depth of approximately 40 km.
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Previously, on December 9, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurred in the region at a depth of 80 kilometers.
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The circum-Pacific seismic belt, the world’s largest seismic belt, is located at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, where approximately 81 percent of our planet’s largest earthquakes occur. The USGS notes that it has earned the nickname “Ring of Fire.”
The belt is found along the boundaries of tectonic plates, where plates composed mostly of oceanic crust subduct (or subduct) beneath another plate. Earthquakes in these subduction zones are caused by slippage between plates and rupture within the plates. Among the earthquakes in the earthquake zone around the Pacific is the M9.5 Chile Earthquake. [Valdivia Earthquake] (1960) and M9.2 Alaska Earthquake (1964).
Approximately 90% of the world’s earthquakes occur in the Ring of Fire. Approximately 81% of the world’s largest earthquakes occur in this zone. It is estimated that there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world every year. 100,000 of these can be felt, 100 cause damage.
The Pacific Ring of Fire is about 40,000 km (25,000 mi) long and up to about 500 km (310 mi) wide, and encircles most of the Pacific Ocean.
The current configuration of the Pacific Ring of Fire was originally formed (about 115 million years ago) by the development of present-day subduction zones in South America, North America, and Asia. As plate configurations gradually changed, the current subduction zones of Indonesia and New Guinea were formed (about 70 million years ago), followed finally by the New Zealand subduction zone (about 35 million years ago).