Dear Dr. Marc et al,

I have carefully checked the response letter and your new manuscript "Initial insights from a global database of rainfall-induced landslide inventories: the weak influence of slope and strong influence of total storm rainfall." The general and detailed comments of reviewer I and II were mostly carefully addressed and the response letter provides detailed evidence of how you changed the manuscript. I also agree with the change of title, suggested by Reviewer II and also with the improved/added figures.

I found two minor issues subject to technical corrections in the new manuscript:
(i) The manuscript contains quite a number of minor grammar mistakes (especially singular/plural issues) and I carefully corrected them as an example in the first five pages: The manuscript should be checked for consistency and spelling mistakes again.
(ii) The comment of Reviewer 1 that the criticism of prior work on this subject could be more "subtle" with several examples given by him could still be implemented more consistently. The work you present is novel and amazing and it is not necessary to outline the shortcomings of prior work in this detail.
Otherwise I think this is a novel and important contribution to a better understanding of extreme event rainfall-induced landsliding and it also contributes to the methodology of landslide detection and statistical analysis

Good luck with the revisions

Michael Krautblatter

I am delighted to inform you that your paper has been accepted for final publication in ESurf after addressing the minor issues raised by the associate editor.
Thank you very much for all your hard work and efforts, and patience....
Best wishes,
Andreas