Dear authors,

all three reviewers have expressed the high scientific quality of the manuscript and have proposed only minor revisions (published in HESSD). In your answers to the reviewers' reports you have shown that a revised version can be published in HESS. Please, submit the final version following the specific replies you have prepared as answers to the three reviwers.

I am expecting your revised version to be subjected only to possible technical corrections apart from maybe some last Editor comments.

Kind regards,

Matjaž Mikoš
Handling Editor

Dear authors,

thank you for the revised version of the mansucript that is now ready for publication taking into account the following technical issues:

- please, use commas between the names of the author(s) and the year of publication when citing references in the text (Fuchs, 2009) - I have put such references in yellow in the manuscript's pdf (but not all, there are too many); please, refer to : http://www.hydrology-and-earth-system-sciences.net/submission/manuscript_preparation.html
- in quite some figures some of the used fonts are rather small to be readable in the journal, especially: axes in Figs. 8-9&13, stress resultants in Fig. 16, legends in Figs. 10-12, 17-19,
- check Fig.7 if it is not squezeed (ratio 1:1) - can you encircle the triggering areas on the photo?

Last but not least, maybe you can add a short Acknowledgment section to thank the three reviewers, and mention possible financial support.

Thank you for your last efforts to make the paper readable to a wide audience.

Kind regards,

Matjaž Mikoš
Handling Editor