dear Authors,

after reviewing your manuscript we believe that, despite being of general interest for the journal, it is not ready for publication yet.
It is possible, however, that after introducing some major changes and by undergoing a full rewriting, the manuscript could become acceptable for publication.
Please try to carefully answer all referee's comments and requests one by one, with special reference to the following points:

1. English has to be strongly revised with the help of some native English-speaker.

2. The structure of the work must be improved according to the suggestions of Referee #2. Carefully separate Introduction from area description, methods, results and discussion of results in separate and self-contained sections.

3. Modify the writing and the approach so as to support each statement with proofs and/or references to published papers

4. Greatly improve the references to previous work of similar type (most of the widely known work on landslide susceptibility is not cited)

5. Please try to modify the approach of the study to highlight the relevance to a susceptibility study which deals with the specific problem of an M7 trigger, as also underlined by referee #2.

6. Please add a reference to tables and figures in the text, when needed

7. Please improve and enlarge the methodology section, by providing more details on the procedure and on the methods used

8. Please also revise and answer to each minor comments provided by the referees as well


Please consider that your responses and modifications to the manuscript will need a new revision round, so please carefully reply to all questions and requests from the referees one by one.
Also, please be aware that this preliminary willingness to reconsider the paper after major revisions does not in any way imply that there is any guarantee that the paper will be accepted in the next phase.

I am looking forward to receiving your revised work,
best regards
FC

dear Authors

after your modifications, the referees thinks that you still need to make some modifications.
These are a few but are considered very important by the reviewer.
My suggestion is to accept and apply them and resubmit afterwards.
Next round will only foresee Editor review.

With the hope that you will be willing to apply the required changes,
best regards
FC

dear Authors

after the last revisions and comments, I have personally reviewed your manuscript and I am now able to say that it is almost ready for publication.
I only ask you one last effort: please have a last English grammar and spelling check of all the document in its last form, since the modifications introduced some minor errors.
Once you will have this done, the manuscript will be considered as accepted without any further review step.
I take the occasion to thank you for publishing with NHESS.
My best regards,
FC