Bumpy at the Top!
280 miles from the nearest city... I think they’ll be good. I suppose a few peasants here and there will be in danger... But when you’re losing thousands on the battlefield every week... What’s a few peasants here and there?
In essence it is. It’s massive. This, from Wikipedia:
It is about 40,000 km (25,000 mi) long[1] and up to about 500 km (310 mi) wide,[2] and surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean.
The Ring of Fire contains between 750 and 915 active or dormant volcanoes, around two-thirds of the world total.[3][4] The exact number of volcanoes within the Ring of Fire depends on which regions are included.
About 90% of the world’s earthquakes,[5] including most of its largest,[6][7] occur within the belt.
That city they mentioned is a big fishing port in very cold region, 51 degrees for the high today. There is a big volcano right next to the city but the active one is far away.
Cue up the tornado, the fire, and the flood. Then the plague of locusts.
It is on the ring of fire.
It’s hardly in Russia.
It’s in the future West Alaska.
That volcano goes off every two or three years, as I recall...
“They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can’t get away now.”
“We’re surrounded. That simplifies the problem”.
Fun fact: The Siberian Traps were formed in one of the largest volcanic events in the last 500 million years. The eruptions continued for 2 million years and may have been responsible for the Permian Extinction Event, aka The Great Dying.