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Kenneth W. Hudnut is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, Geology, Instrumentation, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The primary topics of Hudnut's work cover earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic waves and analysis, earthquake detection and analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, geophysical methods and applications, high-pressure geophysics and materials, and 3D surveying and cultural heritage.

Among Hudnut's recent publications are several papers relating to earthquake events, particularly the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence in California. These publications include:

  • Surface Displacement Distributions for the July 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Ruptures, 2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Documentation of Surface Fault Rupture and Ground-Deformation Features Produced by the 4 and 5 July 2019 Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence, 2020, Seismological Research Letters
  • Airborne Lidar and Electro-Optical Imagery along Surface Ruptures of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence, Southern California, 2020, Seismological Research Letters
  • Kinematics of Fault Slip Associated with the 4-6 July 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Sequence, 2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Liquefaction and Related Ground Failure from July 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence, 2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Hudnut frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Notable coauthors include B. A. Brooks, Janis L. Hernandez, Katherine M. Scharer, M. E. Oskin, and Katherine J. Kendrick.

Their work appears most often in the following scientific venues:

  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Best Publications

  • Detection of aquifer system compaction and land subsidence using interferometric synthetic aperture radar, Antelope Valley, Mojave Desert, California

    D. L. Galloway;K. W. Hudnut;S. E. Ingebritsen;S. P. Phillips

  • The slip history of the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake determined from strong-motion, teleseismic, GPS, and leveling data

    David J. Wald;Thomas H. Heaton;K. W. Hudnut

  • Geomorphic and geologic controls of geohazards induced by Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake

    J. S. Kargel;G. J. Leonard;D. H. Shugar;U. K. Haritashya

  • Near-Field Investigations of the Landers Earthquake Sequence, April to July 1992

    Kerry Sieh;Lucile M Jones;Egill Hauksson;Kenneth W Hudnut

  • Slip pulse and resonance of the Kathmandu basin during the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal.

    John Galetzka;D. Melgar;J.F. Genrich;J. Geng

  • Co-seismic ruptures of the 12 May 2008, Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan: East–west crustal shortening on oblique, parallel thrusts along the eastern edge of Tibet

    J. Liu-Zeng;Z. Zhang;L. Wen;P. Tapponnier

  • Tectonic contraction across Los Angeles after removal of groundwater pumping effects

    Gerald W. Bawden;Wayne R. Thatcher;Ross S. Stein;Kenneth W. Hudnut

  • Poroelastic rebound along the Landers 1992 earthquake surface rupture

    Gilles Peltzer;Paul Rosen;Francois Rogez;K. Hudnut

  • Postseismic Rebound in Fault Step-Overs Caused by Pore Fluid Flow

    Gilles Peltzer;Paul Rosen;Francois Rogez;Ken Hudnut

  • Superficial simplicity of the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake of Baja California in Mexico

    Shengji Wei;Eric J Fielding;Sebastien Leprince;Anthony Sladen;Anthony Sladen

  • Cross-fault triggering in the November 1987 Superstition Hills Earthquake Sequence, southern California

    K. W. Hudnut;L. Seeber;J. Pacheco

  • Near-Field Deformation from the El Mayor–Cucapah Earthquake Revealed by Differential LIDAR

    Michael E. Oskin;J Ramon Arrowsmith;Alejandro Hinojosa Corona;Austin J. Elliott

  • Uplift and subsidence associated with the great Aceh‐Andaman earthquake of 2004

    Aron J. Meltzner;Kerry Sieh;Michael Abrams;Duncan Carr Agnew

  • Complex rupture during the 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake

    G. P. Hayes;R. W. Briggs;A. Sladen;E. J. Fielding

  • The 2012 Brawley swarm triggered by injection-induced aseismic slip

    Shengji Wei;Shengji Wei;Jean Philippe Avouac;Kenneth W. Hudnut;Andrea Donnellan

  • Southern California Permanent GPS Geodetic Array: Continuous measurements of regional crustal deformation between the 1992 Landers and 1994 Northridge earthquakes

    Y. Bock;S. Wdowinski;S. Wdowinski;P. Fang;Jiahua Zhang

  • Co-seismic displacements of the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake

    K. W. Hudnut;Z. Shen;M. Murray;S. McClusky

  • Assembly of a large earthquake from a complex fault system: Surface rupture kinematics of the 4 April 2010 El Mayor–Cucapah (Mexico) Mw 7.2 earthquake

    John M. Fletcher;Orlando J. Teran;Thomas K. Rockwell;Michael E. Oskin

  • Slip history of the 2003 San Simeon earthquake constrained by combining 1-Hz GPS, strong motion, and teleseismic data

    Chen Ji;Kristine M. Larson;Ying Tan;Kenneth W. Hudnut

  • Detection of crustal deformation from the Landers earthquake sequence using continuous geodetic measurements

    Yehuda Bock;Duncan C. Agnew;Peng Fang;Joachim F. Genrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Fielding
Eric J. Fielding Jet Propulsion Lab
Thomas K. Rockwell
Thomas K. Rockwell San Diego State University
Michael E. Oskin
Michael E. Oskin University of California, Davis
Lucile M. Jones
Lucile M. Jones United States Geological Survey
Egill Hauksson
Egill Hauksson California Institute of Technology
Andrea Donnellan
Andrea Donnellan Jet Propulsion Lab
Joann M. Stock
Joann M. Stock California Institute of Technology
Mark Simons
Mark Simons California Institute of Technology
Jean Philippe Avouac
Jean Philippe Avouac California Institute of Technology
Robert W. Graves
Robert W. Graves United States Geological Survey

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