Reply to ‘Comment on “Evidence for a large strike-slip component during the 1960 Chilean earthquake” by H. Kanamori, L. Rivera and S. Lambotte’ by J. C. Savage

We thank Dr Jim Savage for his interest in, and comment on, our paper (Kanamori et al. 2019, hereafter referred to as KRL19), where we showed that the commonly believed thrust-fault mechanism of 1960 Chilean earthquake (Mw = 9.5) is not compatible with teleseismic data (e.g. strain seismograms at Isabella, California, Ogdensburg, New Jersey, long-period Pasadena, California Berkely, California) suggested dextral-slip component comparable in amount dip-slip required. did test model against shear Chile published Plafker & (1970). (2021, S21) investigated whether large dextral slip observed data. He concluded was very small, provides no obvious evidence component. However, he also stated...