Why is the Ring of Fire so much more active around Indonesia than in the rest of the Ring?

Question

Why is the Ring of Fire so much more active around Indonesia than in the rest of the Ring?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

I think you need to think of it a different way. Wouldn’t you expect an area with tens of thousands of islands to be more active volcanically? That is where the vast majority of islands come from.

Indonesia has tens of thousands of islands *because* it is more active.