“…Gravitational instabilities could occur on steep submarine slopes offshore Mayotte but also on the new submarine volcano 50 km offshore Petite Terre: such instabilities are not new on volcano edifices [e.g. Lebas et al, 2018, Le Friant et al, 2015, 2019, Lipman et al, 1988, Moore et al, 1989, Sassa et al, 2016, Watt et al, 2014. For instance, the collapse of the Anak Krakatau volcano in Indonesia in 2018 [93 Mm 3 , Gouhier and Paris, 2019] triggered a tsunami that hit the coast of the Sunda Strait with waves of up to 80 m [Grilli et al, 2019.…”