Advanced Unified Earthquake Catalog for North East India

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments

Line 8-10: The robust statistical regression approach General Orthogonal Regression was used to create empirical correlations between distinct magnitudes to Mwg in order to update the earthquake catalogue of Northeast India.

regression approach General Orthogonal Regression – reframe the sentence

 

Line 88-90: [21], [14], 88 [15], [22], [23], [24], [5], [12] it was discovered that the magnitude scales of the body and surface waves could be converted to Mw using GOR, and that the conversion of saymb,ISC 90 to Mw revealed a substantial variance.

Does not convey the meaning.

 

Line 188-189: The resulting GOR1 relation is obtained using η = 1 and is shown below, and the required plot is shown in Figure 11:

Reframe the sentence. Figure11:?

198: The link between duration magnitude and Mwg was determined using “376” global data earthquakes from the ISC database is derived using GOR1 methodology using η = 1 and is given below

Reframe the sentence

220 – 221: We use a traveling space-time window 220 technique to perform a procedure [38] to group the catalog (Figure ??)

Figure No?

 

Most of the statements in the Conclusion section are the observations of the authors (based on the data and its interpretation). Just a few statements are about the inference/conclusion. Hence, this section may be revised to accommodate more of the conclusions.

 

 

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper is interesting. However, the reviewer has some major concerns.

The title says: “Advanced Unified Earthquake Catalog for North East India”. The reviewer would expect a database associated with the paper, where the scholars can conduct their analyses for future developments and double checks. Conversely, the paper does not append any data (table with all input parameters used for the regressions) and limits to present a series of linear regressions between magnitude measures. Which is the objective of the paper? A regression analysis? Then modify the abstract and title accordingly. Besides, the novelty of this analysis would be very limited due to reduced practical interest and the use of simple and well-known regression methods.

A possible way to improve the paper's originality is to add all the input parameters used for the analyses in a table. This avoids criticisms about the correctness of the analyses and might increase the paper's visibility.

 

The paper is full of typos. Please pay attention to the paper drafting.

Why is there a (a) I Fg.3. The are no subfigures? See also Fig.4

Are the authors sure that the R^2>0.9 in Fig.3. Given the reviewer's experience, the R^2 at first glance should be lower. Provide data in the appendix for a double check.

The reviewer recommends adding a detailed error metric of the regressions following Tab.7 in the following paper, to be included in the references:

Contento, A., Aloisio, A., Xue, J., Quaranta, G., Briseghella, B., & Gardoni, P. (2022). Probabilistic axial capacity model for concrete-filled steel tubes accounting for load eccentricity and debonding. Engineering Structures, 268, 114730.

 

Please expand the reference list by considering the following paper:

Vanzi, I., Marano, G.C., Monti, G., Nuti, C.; A synthetic formulation for the Italian seismic hazard and code implications for the seismic risk (2015) Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 77, pp. 111-122. DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2015.05.001

-Please add an initial list of symbols and notation.

 

Author Response

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper can be accepted for publication.