Back in West America near the coastal region,
the continuous seismic activity in the area had led to a mandatory evacuation of all people. This had come at a time that no one had ever expected.
Even professors and geologists who had already taken several samples around in the near past and declared that this particular mountain wouldn't react for the next two and a half centuries, were in shock to what they woke up to. It was something that they didn't know how to explain as they weren't allowed in the area as so much that had happened in the west left the government with no other choice than to ban it from the rest of the country.
This place was called the Circum-Pacific Belt or The Ring of Fire. Or even by the numerous names that it had and others that could leave you cracking with uncontrollable laughter.
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