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Reply to the Comment on the Paper “Seismic Hazard Analysis of Surface Level, Using Topographic Condition in Northeast of Algeria” by Mohamed Hamdache and José A. Pelàez

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We have kindly received the comments by Hamdache and Pelàez on our published paper (Hamidatou et al. 2019); This article will give us the opportunity to provide more explanation and clarifications on the methodology followed during our work. We find these comments and critiques helpful for our future works. However, most of them were generated from the misapprehension of the paper by the comment authors. These remarks were mainly based on (1) the misjudging of the seismic source zone model used in relation to the active faults in the study area, (2) suspecting that the probabilistic seismic hazard PGA values were wrongly quoted from their analyses in our work, and (3) the logic tree usage , for which we here provide further general clarifications.

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  1. Research Center in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics, BP 63, 16340, Bouzaréah, Algiers, Algeria

    Mouloud Hamidatou, Yahia Mohammedi, Nassim Hallal & Abdlkrim Yelles-Chaouche

  2. Faculty of Technology, University of August 20, 1955-Skikda, P.O. Box 26, 21000, Skikda, Algeria

    Saad Lebdioui

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India

    Itharam Thallak

  4. Geo Forschungs Zentrum (GFZ) Potsdam, Seismic Hazard and Stress Field, Potsdam, Germany

    Dietrich Stromeyer

  5. Foster City, USA

    Omar Khemici

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Hamidatou, M., Mohammedi, Y., Hallal, N. et al. Reply to the Comment on the Paper “Seismic Hazard Analysis of Surface Level, Using Topographic Condition in Northeast of Algeria” by Mohamed Hamdache and José A. Pelàez. Pure Appl. Geophys. 178, 305–312 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-020-02644-4

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