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Member Since 1986
Susan Elizabeth Hough
Research Geophysicist, USGS Pasadena Field Office
Professional Experience
USGS Pasadena Field Office
Research Geophysicist
1992 - Present
University of California San Diego
PhD
1987 - Present
Education
Doctorate
1988
Current Roles
Chair
Macelwane Medal Committee
Honors & Awards
Publications
Revisiting Earthquakes in the Los Angeles, California, Basin...
December 06, 2018
Amplification of Earthquake Ground Motions in Washington, DC...
December 23, 2017
Missing great earthquakes
March 28, 2013
AGU Abstracts
Every Historical Earthquake is Historical in Its Own Way
THE VALUE OF MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY DATA: FROM EARTHQUAKE SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION TO GROUND MOTION AND SEISMIC HAZARD ESTIMATION AND TESTING II POSTER
seismology | 15 december 2023
Susan E. Hough, Roger Bilham
As increasingly sophisticated computational methods are developed to analyze historical earthquakes, it is critical to appreciate both the value and t...
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How Well Can Macroseismic Intensities Constrain Moment Magnitude?
THE VALUE OF MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY DATA: FROM EARTHQUAKE SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION TO GROUND MOTION AND SEISMIC HAZARD ESTIMATION AND TESTING I ORAL
seismology | 14 december 2023
Madeleine C Lucas, Susan E. Hough, Seth Stein, Lea...
Macroseismic data are valuable, and often required, to constrain earthquake source parameters for historical (pre-instrumental) earthquakes. Current m...
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Why does PSHA overpredict historically observed shaking data?
SEISMOLOGY CONTRIBUTIONS: EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS AND ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGY III ORAL
seismology | 15 december 2022
Leah Salditch, Molly M. Gallahue, James S. Neely,...
Probabilistic seismic hazard assessments (PSHA) based on current practice consistently appear to overpredict historically observed shaking data. Compa...
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Volunteer History
2024 - 2025
Chair
Macelwane Medal Committee
2022 - 2023
Member
Macelwane Medal Committee
2019 - 2020
Member
Seismology Honors Canvassing Committee
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