Xabier Murelaga, UPV-EHU geologist: "More than 80% of global earthquakes occur in the Pacific Fire Ring."
Xabier Murelaga, director of the geology department of the UPV.
The director of the UPV/EHU Geology Department has explained that the area where the earthquake occurred this Wednesday, the Kamchatka peninsula, is part of the Pacific Fire Ring, where in 2011 the earthquake that damaged the Japanese coast and caused the Fukushima nuclear accident also occurred.
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