Macrozonation of seismic transient and  permanent ground deformation of Iran

Farahani, Saeideh; Behnam, Behrouz; Tahershamsi, Ahmad

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2889-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2889-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2889-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 11

Research article

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03 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 03 Nov 2020

Macrozonation of seismic transient and permanent ground deformation of Iran

Saeideh Farahani, Behrouz Behnam, and Ahmad Tahershamsi

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RC1: 'REVIEW', Chrysanthos Maraveas, 28 Mar 2020
- AC2: 'Response to the reviewer's comments', Behrouz Behnam, 24 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Review of Manuscript nhess-2020-48 MS Type, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) 2020: Macrozonation of Seismic Transient Ground Displacement and Permanent Ground Deformation of Iran', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Apr 2020
- AC1: 'Point-by-point responses to the reviewer’s comments on the manuscript MS No.: nhess-2020-48', Behrouz Behnam, 29 Apr 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (30 Jun 2020) by Oded Katz

AR by Behrouz Behnam on behalf of the Authors (25 Jul 2020) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (06 Aug 2020) by Oded Katz

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (17 Aug 2020)

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Review of revised Manuscript nhess-2020-48 MS Type, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) 2020: Macrozonation of Seismic Transient and Permanent Ground Deformation of Iran

In their revised manuscript, Farahani et al., have satisfactorily addressed most of the questions and comments that I previously posed for their original submission.
I recommend that the article be published. However, below, I list a number of important points that remain and need to be addressed. I hope that the authors find them useful and that they can incorporate these recommendations into their final manuscript.

1) Line 103. The geological map shows the rock units and therefore it can be compared to a rough validation (see also comment in "line 94") with the soil map, at least in determining soft and hard rocks. In my experience, using only the method of Allen and Wald (2009) which is an excellent method in case there is no other alternative information, without even rough validation may leads to some errors.
If the authors prefer not to address this issue, at least they can add a comment/or note on this topic in the Ms.

2) Line 140: It will greatly help the reader if the authors put some of the explanations mentioned in their answers into the text (especially for kw and km factors).

3) Line 204. I do not see a reference to the table in the appendix showing the moment magnitudes in the Ms.
4) Lines 214-246. In order to make the paper more relevant to readers outside Iran, you can for example mention whether the development of Macrozonation maps of Seismic Transient Ground Displacement and Permanent Ground Deformation of regional area was done elsewhere in the world by other methods. If this process is completely new, it is highly advisable to mention it.

5) The word "as" is used too often throughout the Ms.

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (03 Sep 2020) by Oded Katz

AR by Behrouz Behnam on behalf of the Authors (08 Sep 2020) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (22 Sep 2020) by Oded Katz

Short summary

Iran is located on the Alpide earthquake belt, in the active collision zone between the Eurasian and Arabian plates. Due to the rapid demands for new lifelines, a risk assessment should be performed to reduce the probable damage in advance. In this study, a precise GIS-based map is proposed by employing the HAZUS methodology.