We thank Somerville (2023) for the comment on our article (Poulos and Miranda, 2023), which found that the orientation of maximum horizontal spectral response tends to be close to the transverse orientation with respect to the epicenter of strike‐slip earthquakes. Herein, we respond to the main points of the comment, following the order in which they were made.

In the comment, Somerville (2023) mentions that “Using a point‐source model of the earthquake source, they find that…”. It should be noted that in our study, we do not explicitly use a point‐source model other than when computing the transverse...

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