Reply to "Comment on 'Revisiting the 1872 Owens Valley, California, Earthquake' by Susan E. Hough and Kate Hutton" by William H. Bakun. .

The article presents a response by Susan E. Hough and Kate Hutton to a comment about their article "Revisiting the 1872 Owens Valley, California, Earthquake" which appeared in a previous issue. They note that the commentary stresses that their conclusions over the 1872 earthquake in Owens Valley, California are wrong as the Sierra Nevada attenuation model has not been taken into consideration in their study. They emphasize that inferences made about key historic earthquakes tend to be only as good as the intensity assignments used as basis.