Reply to “Comment on ‘Unbiased Estimation of Moment Magnitude from Body‐ and Surface‐Wave Magnitudes’ by R. Das, H. R. Wason, and M. L. Sharma and ‘Comparative Analysis of Regression Methods Used for Seismic Magnitudes Conversions’ by P. Gasperini, B. Lolli, and S. Castellaro” by J. Pujol

Abstract

We suspect that most criticisms by Pujol (2017, hereafter, P17) were originated by a misunderstanding of our article (Gasperini et al., 2015) that the author himself frankly admits (“Some of the arguments made in the paper were not completely clear to the present author” p. 11) and maybe even by a misunderstanding of the textbook of Fuller (1987). In the following, we will discuss in general the main P17 criticisms, whereas detailed answers to all of them are reported in the Appendix.