No other country in Europe has as many volcanoes as Italy. This is because the Italian peninsula stands on a fault line. Three major volcanoes (Etna, Stromboli, and Vesuvius) have erupted in the last hundred years.

欧洲没有其他国家拥有比意大利更多的火山。这是因为意大利半岛位于断层线上。在过去的一百年中，爆发过的大火山有三座（埃特纳火山，斯特龙博利火山和维苏威火山）。

 

Italians suffer more earthquakes than any other Europeans. In 1693, an estimated 100,000 people died in an earthquake in Sicily. The most deadly recent quake in Italy occurred in Naples in 1980, killing¹ 3,000 people.

意大利人遭受的地震比任何其他欧洲人都要多。1693年，估计有10万人在西西里岛的地震中丧生。最致命的地震发生在1980年的那不勒斯，造成3,000人死亡。

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