Commentary: Deformation Pattern of the Northern Sector of the Malta Escarpment (Offshore SE Sicily, Italy): Fault Dimension, Slip Prediction, and Seismotectonic Implications

With the aim to contribute to the understanding of the seismotectonics of SE Sicily, (Gambino et al., 2021) (GAMB hereafter) address the northern sector of the Malta Escarpment by studying a set of marine seismic profiles. They make use of both previously published profiles and some original data; the latter belong to a set of high resolution profiles that were acquired during a project not focussed on the Malta Escarpment. These new profiles are located in the northernmost sector of the Malta Escarpment, where its expression is poorly developed; they are very short and with little penetration and bring only a limited contribution to characterize the fault geometry along the Malta Escarpment. As a result, most of the work of GAMB seems based on a reanalysis of published data, in particular of one profile (CIR-01; (Gutscher et al., 2017)).