system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5 why is there so much activity with the Ring of Fire recently? How do we know which earthquakes are directly linked? Should California be as worried as the media makes out?
gpt
It is called the "Ring of Fire". The whole region is unusually active compared to the rest of the world. With anything that is randomly active, you will always have periods of more activity and less activity than the average for that thing.