(born March 20, 1961[1]) is a seismologist at the United States Geological Survey in Pasadena, California, and scientist in charge of the office.

She has served on the board of directors of the Seismological Society of America from 1998 to 2004 and of the Southern California Earthquake Center from 2006 to 2009.

[2] Subsequent to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Hough led the United States Geological Survey team charged with the installation of seismic stations and accelerometers.

Hough and her team deployed portable seismometers for recording aftershocks of the earthquake,[4][5][6] and she continues to cooperate with Haitian seismologosists for setting up permanent seismic monitoring in their country.

However, the results provided by Hough and her team highlighted that topographic amplification played a major role in causing the earthquake damage in Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, thereby challenging the conventional view on factors to consider when performing microzonation.