SUSAN E. HOUGH
Scientist-in-Charge
Pasadena Office, U.S. Geological Survey, California

OWEN'S VALLEY: THEN AND NOW

The 1872 Owen's Valley Earthquake: New Results and a Scenic Tour (see article below)

SELECTED RECENT ARTICLES

California's largest historical earthquake? 4/2008 BSSA article
More on remotely triggered earthquakes: Recent article in GSA Special volume
Seismology and the IGY: Recent SRL article
Seismic Hazard in Karachi: 11/2007 SRL article
Probing the Underworld: 2007 GSL article
Predicting the Unpredictable: 3/2005 Geotimes article
Remotely triggered earthquakes: 2/2005 SRL article
Wagon Loads of Sand Blows in the Wabash Valley: 6/2005 SRL article
Triggered Earthquakes in India: 5/2005 Current Science article
Putting the Pieces together: the 1811-1812 New Madrid sequence. 5/2004 Nature article
Book Review in Science: A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester

EARTHQUAKES ON THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT

A brief commentary on recent activity along the San Andreas fault in Southern California.

HISTORIC EARTHQUAKES

Triggered earthquakes 1906 San Francisco India Notes and Folklore New Madrid



GENERAL-INTEREST ARTICLES

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
-- Albert Einstein

Petroglyphs and Earthquakes? Natural History (3/2001) Aftershocks are earthquakes!

Op-eds and More Geotimes Highlights, 2003


SCENES FROM A PLANET

Perugia: 2007 IUGG
Istanbul: 8/2006 Workshop
Finding fault in California: The anniversary tour (April, 2006)
Photographs from Islamabad, March, 2006
Photographs from the Kangra Earthquake Centenary Seminar, Palampur, 2005

PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS (updated 7/2007)


EDUCATION

Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ph.D., Geophysics, July, 1987
University of California at Berkeley
A.B. with honors, Geophysics; June, 1982


U.S. Geological Survey, 525 South Wilson Ave., Pasadena, California, 91106, hough - at - usgs.gov