Dear Dr. Alessandro Gattuso,
Following reading the two rather positive reviews given for your manuscript as well as your replies, I will ask you to submit a revised version of the manuscript incorporating all the suggestions and comments given by the referees (i.e. ‘Minor revisions’). In addition please submit a response to each suggestion/comment given.
Referee #2 also sent the following mail on Aug. 2, 2021:

Dear editorial support team,

I think Authors have not correctly understood that the Mellors et al.
2007 Catalogue is referred to the whole Azerbaijan. Thus the number of
4.2 eruptions per year is not referred to a single mud cone but to many mud volcanic structures contemporary. Eruption frequency of a mud volcano in Azerbaijan is not too different to a mud volcano of Italy.
See also Bonini in Reference list.


Sincerely,
Oded Katz

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Oded Katz
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Dear Dr. Alessandro Gattuso,
In general your revised version is almost there. Please consider the following:
1. The first paragraph needs some (classical/review) references for the phenomena of mud volcanos. This is also related to the comment of R1: ‘Authors speak about the big eruptions related on the MVs but do not take into account a series of bibliographical references relating to huge emissions of mud in similar geological conditions C1 in other sites of the world. Especially works in which the multidisciplinary approach through the joint use of geophysical, geochemical methods and images from drones and or cameras have already been used. One example out of many is that of the works published on Lusi MV in Indonesia’.
2. Line 239, define MV in the text (not only in the abstract).
3. Line 259, change ‘important’ to ‘significant’.
4. Line 311-314: study sites are mentioned before presented.
5. Figure 2. Picture of the MVs from the ground would be useful to add (hard to understand the vertical dimension).

Sincerely,
Oded Katz

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Oded Katz
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Dear Dr. Alessandro Gattuso,
I am pleased to inform you that the revised version of your manuscript NHESS-2020-369 can now be accepted for publication in our journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS). Please inform your co-authors of the editorial decision.
You will soon 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,

Oded Katz

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Oded Katz
Handling Editor
NHESS
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Office: +972-2-5314267
Mobile: +972-54-5575926
E-mail: odedk@gsi.gov.il