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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank to the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), especially to Demetrio de Armas (deceased on May 28, 2015) and Eugenio Fraile, for the invitation to participate in the November 2011 IEO’s oceanographic cruise with the R/V Ramon Margalef. The authors wish also to sincerely thank James White for his useful comments and constructive suggestions which greatly improved this reply.

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  1. Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (INVOLCAN), Puerto de la Cruz, Canary Islands, Spain

    N. M. Pérez, P. A. Hernández, L. González de Vallejo, T. Sagiya, J. Barrancos, J. Ibáñez & C. Romero

  2. Marine Geology Division, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME), Madrid, Spain

    L. Somoza, R. León, A. Biain, F. J. González & T. Medialdea

  3. Environmental Research Division, ITER, Granadilla de Abona, Canary Islands, Spain

    N. M. Pérez, P. A. Hernández & J. Barrancos

  4. Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    L. González de Vallejo

  5. Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    T. Sagiya

  6. Instituto Andaluz de Geofísica, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

    J. Ibáñez

  7. Geochemical Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

    H. Sumino

  8. Volcanic Fluid Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kusatsu, Agatsuma, Gunma, Japan

    K. Nogami

  9. Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

    C. Romero

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Pérez, N.M., Somoza, L., Hernández, P.A. et al. Reply to comment from Blanco et al. (2015) on “Evidence from acoustic imaging for submarine volcanic activity in 2012 off the west coast of El Hierro (Canary Islands, Spain) by Pérez et al. [Bull. Volcanol. (2014), 76:882–896]. Bull Volcanol 77, 63 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-015-0948-5

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