The Pacific Ocean with its Ring of Fire, along the coast lines of the Americas and Asia is the rim of a Super Valcano! It is preping to blow and when it does it will blow out the whole side of the Earth and throw the Earth off its axis and Earth will tumble off into space out of control from it being out of balance. Won't happen? You just wait. When it happens I expect everyone to log onto here and come up with an idea what we can do about it.
Now that we had a laugh, stand back and look at the shape of the Pacific and how the coast lines are being pushed into a big circle. The Easterly portion of the US is nice and flat, the west is pushed easterly. It is so big that no one sees it or wants to conceive it. Just like Yellow Stone, when scientist stood back and looked at the bigger picture, that was then they noticed something was going on.
Question is, do you want to be at ground zero or just out of reach? The result will have the same result, you are going to die, just how quick do you want it to happen?