Reply to comment by Giuliano F. Panza on “Rarely observed short-period (5–10 s) suboceanic Rayleigh waves propagating across the Tyrrhenian Sea”

We thank Giuliano F. Panza for the interest demonstrated
in our study and for having pointed out the error in
Figure 3 of Rovelli et al. [2004, hereinafter referred to as
R2004GRL]. In his comment, Panza writes that a similar
phenomenon was already reported by him in an old paper.
This statement is not correct and we feel that probably we
did not emphasized enough the innovative character of
R2004GRL. His comment gives us the opportunity of better
explaining that the phenomenon we observe in the Tyrrhenian
Sea is different from those studied by Panza and
coauthors.

Panza, G. F. (2006), Comment on ‘‘Rarely observed short-period (5– 10 s)
suboceanic Rayleigh waves propagating across the Tyrrhenian Sea’’ by
A. Rovelli et al., Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L10309, doi:10.1029/2005GL025584.