Reply to comment by Giuliano F. Panza on ‘‘Rarely observed shortperiod (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