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Revision as of 07:10, 19 February 2009
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. Her latest book is Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man, a biography of famed seismologist Charles Richter.
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.