Reply to the Comment on the Paper Seismic Hazard Analysis of Surface Level, Using Topographic Condition in Northeast of Algeria by Mohamed Hamdache and Jose A. Pelaez

We have kindly received the comments by Hamdache and Pelaez on our published paper (Hamidatou et al. 2019); This article will give us the opportunity to provide more explanation and clarifications on the methodology followed during our work. We find these comments and critiques helpful for our future works. However, most of them were generated from the misapprehension of the paper by the comment authors. These remarks were mainly based on (1) the misjudging of the seismic source zone model used in relation to the active faults in the study area, (2) suspecting that the probabilistic seismic hazard PGA values were wrongly quoted from their analyses in our work, and (3) the logic tree usage , for which we here provide further general clarifications.

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The comments and critiques received were helpful for future works, but most of them stemmed from misapprehension of the paper, including issues related to the seismic source zone model, PGA values, and logic tree usage.