Thanks Roger,

I have to admit that the manuscript got better each time it was revised. Some of my problems are related to my writing. But I think the bar may be a little higher for this type of manuscript? We did have a problem with Seeber and Sorlien, which was published in 2000: it took 5 years from when we first submitted it. I was second author to a Turkish professor on a short manuscript on the North Anatolian fault that we submitted to Nature Geoscience a couple of weeks ago: it was rejected without sending it to review, as not of broad enough interest. One would think that getting the long term slip rate through the last half million years, including a normal component (tsunami relevance) near the megacity Istanbul would be enough.
Chris