CAN HORIZONTAL P-WAVES BE TRAPPED AND RESONATE IN A SHALLOW SEDIMENTARY BASIN - COMMENT

We show that most of the arguments in the above paper are either incor rect or irrelevant to the point the authors are trying to make. We sho w that their results have no bearing on the model proposed by our grou p, as they claim. They discuss the seismic response of a valley with a 2-D trapezoidal cross-section in a vertical plane, whereas we dealt w ith a closed basin with a 2-D cross-section but of arbitrary geometry and in the horizontal plane. Even more significantly, the width of the valley they use is much smaller than the wavelength of the horizontal P waves that can resonate, thereby precluding any possibility of them being trapped. Therefore, their arguments do not clarify the issue po sed in the title of their article.