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Mountainside burns in eastern city as country sizzles amid El Niño

Asian country sits where the so-called “typhoon belt” meets the “ring of fire”

Earthquakes frequent the Philippines, an Asian country of 108 million inhabitants. And this is because the archipelago (made up of 7,641 islands) is on the western edge of the so-called “Ring of Fire”. There’s a fascinating reason why geologists attribute "fire" to it. The vast area is a seismically active site, which often triggers volcanic eruptions and tremors. Another fact: this area is home to 75% of the world’s 1,500 most active volcanoes. About 300 of those volcanoes are in the Philippines, of which 22 are active and the rest (278) are "dormant" as of the record. Why is the Ph...