The Alpide belt is a mountain range which extends along the southern margin of Eurasia. Stretching from Java to Sumatra through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean and out into the Atlantic, it includes the Alps, the Carpathians, the mountains of Anatolia and Iran, the Hindu Kush and the mountains of Southeast Asia. The Alpide belt is being created by ongoing plate tectonics namely the process of collision between the northward-moving African, Arabian and Indian plates and the Eurasian plate. The most seismically active zone in the world is the Pacific Ring of Fire. Alpide Belt falls on the second position behind it in terms of seismicity.