Susan Hough
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Susan Elizabeth Hough (born 1961) is a seismologist at the United States Geological Survey in Pasadena, California, and scientist in charge of the office. She has served as an editor and contributor for many journals and is a contributing editor to Geotimes Magazine. She is the author of four books, including Earthshaking Science (Princeton).
Hough has also written numerous articles for mainstream publications such as the Los Angeles Times.
Hough graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982 and is a University of California, San Diego Alumna, earning her Ph.D. in geophysics from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1987.
[edit] Publications
- Predicting the Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction (2009) ISBN 0691138168
- Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man, a biography of famed seismologist Charles Richter (2007) ISBN 0691128073
- After the Earth Quakes: Elastic Rebound on an Urban Planet (2005) ISBN 0195179137
- Finding Fault in California: An Earthquake Tourist's Guide (2004) ISBN 0878424954
- Earthshaking Science: What We Know (and Don't Know) about Earthquakes (2004) ISBN 0691118191
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