Closure [Closure to "Three‐Dimensional Seismic Analysis of La Villita dam"] by Ahmed-Waeil M. Elgamal, Ronald F. Scott, Members, ASCE, Mohamed F. Succarieh. and Liping Yan

The authors are grateful to the discusser for contributing his experience and insight to the discussion of their paper; he raises a number of important issues regarding the response of earth dams to earthquakes in general, and La Villita Dam in particular. They would like to respond to some of the questions he has raised. There is, of course, only one site near the crest of the dam, on the downstream side, at which the accelerations were measured during the earthquakes discussed.