A modeling study suggests a slumbering subduction zone below the Gibraltar Strait is active and could break into the Atlantic Ocean in 20 million years' time, giving birth to an Atlantic "Ring of Fire."

Sleeping subduction zone could awaken and form a new 'Ring of Fire' that swallows the Atlantic Ocean

Source: space
Source Link: https://www.space.com/earth-sleeping-subduction-zone-new-ring-of-fire-atlantic-ocean