Dear Drs. Chen, Chao and Cheng

Thank you for the submission of your manuscript "Exploring the change of Risk Perception and Adaptation Behavior among Varied Social Character Before and After Earthquake Disaster – A Case Study in Taiwan".

As you know, three reviewers have now provided detailed reviews, which you have replied in thoughtful detail to. All reviewers have suggested substantial changes to the manuscript, particularly to enhance its clarity and relate it to a wider range of relevant literature, and therefore I would like to invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript. Please use the detailed comments provided by the reviewers to guide you in this process.

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). Please can you also include a track changes document between the old manuscript and the new one (you can include this as part of your ‘author’s reply’).

I look forward to seeing the next version of your manuscript which I will then send out for further review to either the previous reviewers (if they agree) or new reviewers.

Regards
Amy Donovan
 

Dear Dr Chen,

I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript NHESS-2019-422 can now be accepted for publication in our journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) subject to some minor technical corrections. Please inform your co-authors of the editorial decision.

Technical corrections are needed to clarify some aspects of the findings. I assume that where you have "p=0.000", this is because SPSS displays 0.000, but if you click on it, it will give you a precise number. Please go through the MS and tables, and change 0.000 to "<0.001". Simply 0.000 is not accurate. Please also go through the results section again and check for clarity - in particular, in the House ownership section, you state that people were more willing to retrofit after the EQ, which contradicts everything else! Please make sure that this section is very clear and reflects the tables and figures. Finally, please revisit the conclusion and ensure that it is a clear summary of the findings. The "limitations" should be a new paragraph - at the moment it is too abrupt.

You will then 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,

Amy Donovan
Topical editor