| I got the Malaysia bonus when I played the quiz, I just thought it should be a regular answer, now I'm not so sure Malaysia, Singapore, or Brunei should be included at all. Just to be clear I enjoyed the quiz, I just think your source has some mistaken notions. I look up lots of stuff online and I'm almost always disappointed with the information I've gotten from wiki.answers.com. I find their stuff is almost always unsourced, and in cases where I've investigated further often just plain wrong, or filled with mistakes. I'm just unimpressed with that site. To take their inclusion of Australia in the ring of fire as an example, there are no historically active volcanoes in Australia, the last volcano on Australia erupted some 5,000 years ago. Australia is in the middle of its own tectonic plate, meaning that any earthquake that affects Australia is an intra-plate earthquake, that is, having nothing to do with the ring of fire which follows plate boundaries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plates_tect2_en.svg Possibly they had in mind the Australian territories of Heard and McDonald Islands which have recently active volcanoes, but unfortunately those are way off to the west in the middle of the Indian Ocean. |
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