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Comment on the Paper “Seismic Hazard Analysis of Surface Level, Using Topographic Condition in the Northeast of Algeria” by Mouloud Hamidatou, Mohammedi Yahia, Abdelkrim Yelles-Chaouche, Itharam Thallak, Dietrich Stromeyer, Saad Lebdioui, Fabrice Cotton, Nassim Hallal and Omar Khemici

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We would like to make some comments on the paper by Hamidatou et al. (2019). Initially, these comments are motivated to reveal that, previous results on probabilistic seismic hazard analyses, some of them computed and published by our research group, are wrongly quoted in the paper by these authors. In our opinion, some other points are worthy of debate, mainly, but not only, the used seismic source zone model, the used logic-tree, and also the comparison of estimated values of peak ground horizontal acceleration (PGA) with previous results.

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  1. Département Études et Surveillance Sismique, CRAAG, Algiers, Algeria

    Mohamed Hamdache

  2. Department of Physics, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain

    José A. Peláez

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Hamdache, M., Peláez, J.A. Comment on the Paper “Seismic Hazard Analysis of Surface Level, Using Topographic Condition in the Northeast of Algeria” by Mouloud Hamidatou, Mohammedi Yahia, Abdelkrim Yelles-Chaouche, Itharam Thallak, Dietrich Stromeyer, Saad Lebdioui, Fabrice Cotton, Nassim Hallal and Omar Khemici. Pure Appl. Geophys. 178, 301–304 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02399-7

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