Photo: Deadly Java Quake Highlights "Ring of Fire" Dangers

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A woman carries her child through destroyed houses in the village of Bantul in the Yogyakarta province of Central Java, Indonesia, on May 29, two days after a powerful earthquake devastated the area.

The majority of those killed in the 6.3-magnitude quake—more than 5,700 to date—lived in the Bantul district.

Photograph Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

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