Pino et al. (2021, hereinafter PIN2021) commented on the paper by Barreca et al. (2021, hereinafter B2021) titled: “The Strait of Messina: Seismotectonics and the source of the 1908 earthquake”, which was published in the journal Earth-Sciences Reviews in May 2021. PIN2021 argued both on the “source model of the 1908 EQ”, as proposed by B2021, and on the existence of the newly discovered causative fault (i.e. the B2021W-Fault). Based on “objective reading of achieved results along with other existing geophysical information…“, PIN2021 conclude: “the source mechanism for the 1908 EQ is based on incorrect assumptions, while their results are internally inconsistent and with other independent observations”. According to PIN2021, the inconsistency of the proposed “source mechanism”, which foresaw the possibility of an aseismic slip on a low-angle discontinuity preceding the 1908 mainshock (see B2021), would be mainly demonstrated by “the lack of significant variations of the relative sea level in the Messina harbor area, in the time period relevant for the levelling data (1907-1908) ……. and at least for the decade preceding the event”. Moreover, to demonstrate that the deformation is mostly coseismic, PIN2021 proposes a sea level diagram based on unreliable data from the Messina tide gauge. In this paper, we demonstrate that the comments by PIN2021 are unfounded. We strongly confirm the scientific validity of the model proposed in B2021.

皮诺等人。(2021，以下简称 PIN2021) 对 Barreca 等人的论文发表了评论。（2021，以下B2021），其题为：“墨西拿海峡：地震构造和地震1908年的来源”，这是发表在该杂志五月地球科学评论2021 PIN2021认为无论在“ 1908年EQ的源模型”，如 B2021 所提出的，以及关于新发现的起因故障（即 B2021W-Fault）的存在。PIN2021基于“客观阅读已取得的结果以及其他现有地球物理信息…… ”得出结论：“ 1908 EQ 的来源机制是基于错误的假设，而其结果内部不一致且与其他独立观察结果不一致”。根据PIN2021，提出了“的不一致性源机制”，这预见在1908年主震之前的低角度不连续性的震滑动的可能性（见B2021），将通过“主要表现出缺乏的显著变化墨西拿港区的相对海平面，在与水准数据相关的时间段内（1907-1908）……。至少在事件发生之前的十年里”。此外，为了证明变形主要是同震的，PIN2021 提出了一个基于墨西拿潮汐测量仪的不可靠数据的海平面图。在本文中，我们证明 PIN2021 的评论是没有根据的。我们强烈证实了 B2021 中提出的模型的科学有效性。