Reply to the comment of Pedoja et al. by Maouche, S., Meghraoui, M., Morhange, C., Belabbes, S., Bouhadad, Y. and Haddoum, H. on the published paper: Maouche, S., Meghraoui, M., Morhange, C., Belabbes, S., Bouhadad, Y. and Haddoum, H., 2011, Active coastal thrusting and folding, and uplift rate of the Sahel anticline and Zemmouri earthquake area (Tell Atlas, Algeria), Tectonophysics, 509 (2011) 69–80

We are thankful to Pedoja et al. (2011) for their comment on our published paper Maouche et al. (2011) giving us the opportunity to provide more explanations on the uplift rate along the Algerian coastline. The comment of Pedoja et al. questions our results and interpretation of the Sahel anticline late Quaternary evolution. They stipulate that our field observations of the active folding and related thrust fault and height measurements of marine terraces with dating are not valid. Their inferences suggest that our uplift rate estimate is "anomalously" high and that the stair-case geomorphology visible on the northern limb of the fold cannot be correlated with the coseismic growth of the anticline. Finally, they contest the existence of a fold structure named as the Sahel anticline and state that the north dipping Quaternary sedimentary units visible along ~60-km-long coastline west of Algiers must only be related with an offshore fold axis.