The largest of Earth's tectonic plates, the Pacific plate, is moving eastward and plunging under the entire western edge of the Americas, creating a "ring of fire" dotted with volcanoes and mountain ranges and imperiled by earthquakes.
There were also a number of small fires "dotted around", the force said.
There were barricades, a few small fires dotted around, and only a handful of protesters still in the streets.
Me, I adore the wild smell of the roaring fires dotting the coast in the summer night when I drive down Pacific Coast Highway, windows down and cool wind blowing.
Still, to hear the rapid-fire dotted-note flow of "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" on the "Forgot About Dre" beat is a delight, and the squelchy G-funk setting for "XXX" somehow makes the song more anarchic.
Four fire pits dot the property, which also includes a shuffleboard court, and a boulder-strewn drainage "river" that carries to the lower gate.
Cars and trucks sit in a dirt parking lot, while rusting equipment — bulldozers, a fire truck — dots the surrounding fields, where the ranch's cows also make their homes.
In the photo lab, there are actually three colors of laser that fire little dots of light on roughly the same kind of photo paper that has been used for 100 years.
The symbol of Tenerife is the dragon tree, and the island itself is like a dragon – full of fire and dotted with volcanoes, the largest of which is El Teide, a massive 3,718 metres high.
If you arrive at night, don't be alarmed by the fires that dot the landscape during the dingy shuttle-bus ride from the airport to the hovercraft terminal.
