Dear Jean-Luc,

Thank you very much for your positive and encouraging feedback.

Thanks a lot making us aware of the lack of clarity regarding data access. Schools and interested parties can easily access seismograms from the Raspberry Shake school network Switzerland through http://sas-viewer.ethz.ch/ (local seismicity) and https://rs-viewer.ethz.ch/ (local, regional and global seismicity) (last accessed April 2026). Data are also available for download from the European Integrated Data Archive (EIDA).” We will include a corresponding statement in the Data Availability section.

Thanks a lot for pointing out that there is an imprecision regarding the French initiative. We will change the corresponding text to “Key examples include the SISMOS à l'École network in France, which has successfully run for over 25 years and is now managed by EDUMED-Obs, the Mediterranean Educational Observatory at the Université Côte d'Azur (Berenguer et al., 2020; Courboulex et al., 2012);…”

Thank you very much for taking your time to review our article. We appreciate your positive feedback and kind words.

Sincerely,

Maren & co-authors

Dear John,

Thank you very much for your positive and encouraging feedback. We also appreciate your suggestion to reach out to commercial vendors to distribute our Lambda Slinky Seismometer kits to interested parties outside Switzerland. We will discuss this internally within our group.

After the initial submission of our manuscript, another student finished his Matura thesis in which he analysed seismic data recorded by the Raspberry Shake seismometer at his school to determine earthquake detection thresholds and identify anthropogenic noise sources. We also list a couple of topics for future projects on our webpage: https://seismo.ethz.ch/en/news-and-services/for-schools/activities-experiments-school-projects/.

We are targeting 12–18-year-olds, while the Jupyter notebook is primarily intended for older students, for example in the context of a Matura thesis. We will clarify this important point in the Introduction.

Thanks a lot for making us aware of this important reference from Bravo et al. (2020). We will add it to our revised manuscript.

The assembled Lambda Slinky is about 40 cm tall. We will add a corresponding note to Figure 4. Following your suggestion, we will also hightlight the other 2 key outcomes (education materials and Raspberrry Shake network), and expand the list of objectives in Chapter 1: “This two-year project aimed to revitalise and expand seismo@school Switzerland by providing schools with updated educational resources reflecting current knowledge in seismology and related fields, Raspberry Shake classroom seismometers for earthquake recording, and a simple seismometer kit for hands-on assembly to introduce the principles of seismometers.”

"overarching research interest" - We are referring to the research interests of this paper (see last paragraph in Chapter 1)…“In this paper, we investigate how experiential, data-driven educational approaches can enhance earthquake awareness and preparedness in moderate-hazard regions; how school-based seismometers support both teaching and scientific monitoring while introducing practical challenges regarding installation and operation; and what institutional and policy conditions are necessary to sustain such efforts over the long term.”

We would like to thank you for taking your time and providing us with very useful feedback.

Sincerely,

Maren Böse & Co-authors

Dear John,

Thank you very much for your positive and encouraging feedback. We also appreciate your suggestion to reach out to commercial vendors to distribute our Lambda Slinky Seismometer kits to interested parties outside Switzerland. We will discuss this internally within our group.

After the initial submission of our manuscript, another student finished his Matura thesis in which he analysed seismic data recorded by the Raspberry Shake seismometer at his school to determine earthquake detection thresholds and identify anthropogenic noise sources. We also list a couple of topics for future projects on our webpage: https://seismo.ethz.ch/en/news-and-services/for-schools/activities-experiments-school-projects/.

We are targeting 12–18-year-olds, while the Jupyter notebook is primarily intended for older students, for example in the context of a Matura thesis. We will clarify this important point in the Introduction.

Thanks a lot for making us aware of this important reference from Bravo et al. (2020). We will add it to our revised manuscript.

The assembled Lambda Slinky is about 40 cm tall. We will add a corresponding note to Figure 4. Following your suggestion, we will also hightlight the other 2 key outcomes (education materials and Raspberrry Shake network), and expand the list of objectives in Chapter 1: “This two-year project aimed to revitalise and expand seismo@school Switzerland by providing schools with updated educational resources reflecting current knowledge in seismology and related fields, Raspberry Shake classroom seismometers for earthquake recording, and a simple seismometer kit for hands-on assembly to introduce the principles of seismometers.”

"overarching research interest" - We are referring to the research interests of this paper (see last paragraph in Chapter 1)…“In this paper, we investigate how experiential, data-driven educational approaches can enhance earthquake awareness and preparedness in moderate-hazard regions; how school-based seismometers support both teaching and scientific monitoring while introducing practical challenges regarding installation and operation; and what institutional and policy conditions are necessary to sustain such efforts over the long term.”

We would like to thank you for taking your time and providing us with very useful feedback.

Sincerely,

Maren Böse & Co-authors