Dear Filippo Zaniboni et al.

Thank you for the submission of your very interesting manuscript “Assessment of the 1783 Scilla landslide-tsunami effects on Calabria and Sicily coasts through numerical modeling”.

As you know, three reviewers have now provided detailed reviews, which you have replied in thoughtful detail to. All three reviewers recommended minor revisions and therefore I would like to invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript.

Would you please also provide an ‘author’s reply’ to the reviewers (feel free to use the same words that you used in what you have already uploaded).

Regards,
Ira Didenkulova

Dear Filippo Zaniboni et al.

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript nhess-2019-94 can now be accepted for publication in our journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) pending technical corrections, which I outline further below. Please inform your co-authors of the editorial decision.

The technical corrections I would like to recommend so that this paper has a stronger impact in its published version are the following (note that I do not need to see the revised version, instead it will go directly to the journal publication office):
(1) Abstract. This would benefit by more quantitative inclusion of data used, results found, as it reads more like an introduction presently. It is very vague (more like an introduction) in terms of a summary of data used, methods, and results.
(2) In-text citations. In general, you do a good job at citing appropriate in-text citations to support your facts, but please go through the paper from beginning to end (the text and the figure captions and table headers) to make sure that EVERY sentence it is clear where the facts/information are coming from. For example (and this is just one place, there are many) in the introductory paragraph, you have many facts and information, but no in-text citations.
(3) For all figures, please ensure that they have some indication of scale either on the figure or in the figure caption and an indication of direction. For example, in Figure 1, the only indication of scale is that it is 1 km from the landslide scar to the city, but it would be better to state the size of the landslide scar (in the figure caption) to give the reader an idea of scale. Figures 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 have no indication of direction or latitude/longitude (or you could refer to another figure where these are indicated).
(4) Size of text in figures. Ensure that the minimum font size is legible in your figures. For example Figure 7 & 10 legend numbers--will these be legible once the figure is printed (would be an easy task now to enlarge the legend numbers). Figure 11 contour line values are almost unreadable as is--consider what might happen once published.

After submission of the technical corrections, you will be contacted by the journal publication office for the preparation of the final version of your manuscript. Please respond promptly to the requests of the publication office, as this will condition the time of your publication, and read carefully any copy-editing recommendations that they make. Let me remind you that final publication of your paper on the journal web site is subject to the payment of the appropriate service charges. Also, do not forget that as an open-access journal you can freely distribute your paper once it is published.

I take this opportunity to thank you and your co-authors for having selected Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) for the publication of your scientific work. I look forward to receiving further contributions to our journal from you and your co-authors.

Sincerely,
Ira Didenkulova
NHESS editor