Discussion
Ground motion during an earthquake is
Answer: C
Correct answer: three-dimensional and irregular in time
A real ground motion has two horizontal components and a vertical one, all irregular, all changing in amplitude and frequency from instant to instant. The idealisations used in analysis - a single horizontal component, a smooth design spectrum - are convenient simplifications of this, and the difference is why recorded motions are used for verification.
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