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Kenneth W. Hudnut

Southern California Edison
Seismic Expert

Expertise: Investment optimization, prioritization, and strategy development to efficiently increase seismic resiliency of critical lifeline infrastructure systems, especially to improve safety and reliability of the electric power grid.
 
 
About Me Publications
Hudnut, K. W. (2023, 09). Intersections: A Strategy for Increasing Seismic Infrastructure Resilience. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12964
Yeager, S., Nevitt, J. M., Brooks, B. A., Ericksen, T. L., Hudnut, K. W., & Glennie, C. L. (2022, 09). Characterizing deformation patterns along the maximum slip zone of the 2019 M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake surface rupture. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12500
Morelan, A. E., Hudnut, K. W., & Donnellan, A. (2020, 08). Quantifying fault displacement via optical image correlation using structure-from-motion orthomosaics in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10761
Stewart, J. P., Brandenberg, S. J., Wang, P., Nweke, C., Hudson, K. S., Mazzoni, S., Bozorgnia, Y., Hudnut, K. W., Davis, C. A., Ahdi, S. K., Zareian, F., Fayaz, J., Koehler, R. D., Chupik, C., Pierce, I., Williams, A., Akciz, S. O., Hudson, M. B., Kishida, T., Brooks, B. A., Gold, R. D., Ponti, D. J., Scharer, K. M., McPhillips, D., Ericksen, T., Hernandez, J., Patton, J. R., Olson, B., Dawson, T., Treiman, J. A., DuRoss, C. B., Blake, K., Bachhuber, J. L., Madugo, C. M., Sun, J., Donnellan, A., Lyzenga, G. A., Conway, E. M., & Goulet, C. A. (2019, 08). Engineering and Geological Effects of the July 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9907
Kendrick, K. J., Akciz, S. O., Angster, S. J., Avouac, J., Bachhuber, J. L., Bennett, S. E., Blake, K., Bork, S., Brooks, B. A., Burgess, P., Chupik, C., Dawson, T., DeFrisco, M. J., Delano, J., DeLong, S., Dolan, J. F., DuRoss, C. B., Ericksen, T., Frost, E., Gold, R. D., Graehl, N. A., Haddon, E. K., Hatem, A. E., Hernandez, J. L., Hitchcock, C., Hudnut, K. W., Koehler, R. D., Kozaci, O., Ladinsky, T., Madugo, C. M., Mareschal, M., McPhillips, D., Milliner, C., Morelan, A. E., Nevitt, J., Olson, B., Padilla, S. E., Patton, J. R., Philibosian, B., Pickering, A., Pierce, I., Ponti, D. J., Pridmore, C., Rosa, C., Roth, N., Scharer, K. M., Seitz, G. G., Spangler, E., Swanson, B. J., Thomas, K., Thompson Jobe, J., Treiman, J. A., Williams, A. M., & Oskin, M. E. (2019, 08). Geologic observations of surface fault rupture associated with the Ridgecrest M6.4 and M7.1 earthquake sequence by the Ridgecrest Rupture Mapping Group. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9779
Hudnut, K. W., Brooks, B. A., Scharer, K. M., Hernandez, J. L., Dawson, T., Oskin, M. E., Arrowsmith, R., Blake, K., Bork, S., Boggs, M., Glennie, C. L., Fernandez-Diaz, J., Singhania, A., & Hauser, D. L. (2019, 07). Airborne lidar and electro-optical imagery along surface ruptures of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence, southern California. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9280
Hudnut, K. W., Wein, A. M., Cox, D. A., Perry, S. C., Porter, K. A., Johnson, L. A., & Strauss, J. A. (2017, 07). The HayWired Scenario — How can the San Francisco bay region bounce back better?. Oral Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7311
Determan, D. N., Aspiotes, A. G., Barseghian, D. T., Hudnut, K. W., & Stark, K. F. (2016, 08). USGS Southern California GPS Network. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7028
Nevitt, J. M., Brooks, B. A., Ericksen, T. L., Glennie, C. L., Madugo, C. M., Lockner, D. A., Moore, D. E., Minson, S. E., & Hudnut, K. W. (2016, 08). Effects of elastoplastic material properties on shallow fault slip and surface displacement fields. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6872
Witkosky, R. D., Adams, P. M., Buckland, K., Hudnut, K. W., Johnson, P. D., Lynch, D. K., Scharer, K. M., Stock, J. M., & Tratt, D. M. (2016, 09). Characterizing emissivity spectra from geomorphic surfaces along the southern San Andreas Fault. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6653
Liu, J., Chen, T., Shao, Y., Zhang, P., Hudnut, K. W., Lei, Q., & Li, Z. (2016, 08). Cumulative offsets revealed by airborne LiDAR along a “creeping” section of the Haiyuan fault, northern Tibetan plateau. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6416
Sousa, F. J., Stock, J. M., Scharer, K. M., Hudnut, K. W., Akciz, S. O., Witkosky, R. D., & Harvey, J. C. (2015). Re-evaluating offset measurements in the maximum slip zone of the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake surface rupture. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, (under review). SCEC Contribution 6121
Ponti, D. J., Morelan, A. E., Padilla, S. E., Oskin, M. E., Olson, B., O'Neal, M., Nevitt, J. M., Nale, S., Mongovin, D. D., Philibosian, B., Milliner, C., McPhillips, D., McDonald, J., Mareschal, M., Madugo, C. M., Leeper, R. J., Ladinsky, T., patton, j. R., Pierce, I., Koehler, R. D., Jobe, J., Zimmerman, J., Zachariasen, J., Xu, X., Williams, A. M., Vanderwal, J., Valencia, F. N., Treiman, J. A., Swanson, B. J., Pridmore, C., Spangler, E., Smith-Konter, B. R., Singleton, D. M., Seitz, G. G., Scharer, K. M., Sandwell, D. T., Roth, N., Kozaci, O., Kendrick, K. J., Blair, J., Barth, N. C., Burgess, P., Bullard, T., Brooks, B. A., Bork, S., Blake, K., Bennett, S. E., Bacon, S., Dawson, T., Bachhuber, J. L., Avouac, J., Angster, S. J., Akciz, S. O., Pickering, A., Thomas, K., Rosa, C., Chupik, C., DeFrisco, M. J., Hudnut, K. W., Graehl, N. A., Holland, P., Hitchcock, C., Hernandez, J. L., Helms, J., Hatem, A., Haddon, E. K., Gutierrez, C., Gold, R. D., Delano, J., Funning, G. J., Frost, E., Ericksen, T., DuRoss, C. B., Donnellan, A., Dolan, J. F., DeLong, S., & Zinke, R. (2020). 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. Seismological Research Letters, 91(5), 2942-2959. doi: 10.1785/0220190322. SCEC Contribution 10852
Zimmaro, P., Nweke, C. C., Hernandez, J. L., Hudson, K. S., Hudson, M. B., Ahdi, S. K., Boggs, M. L., Davis, C. A., Goulet, C. A., Brandenberg, S. J., Hudnut, K. W., & Stewart, J. P. (2020). Liquefaction and Related Ground Failure from July 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 110(4), 1549-1566. doi: 10.1785/0120200025. SCEC Contribution 10179
Hudnut, K. W., Brooks, B. A., Scharer, K., Hernandez, J. L., Dawson, T. E., Oskin, M. E., Ramon Arrowsmith, J., Goulet, C. A., Blake, K., Boggs, M. L., Bork, S., Glennie, C. L., Fernandez-Diaz, J., Singhania, A., Hauser, D., & Sorhus, S. (2020). Airborne Lidar and Electro-Optical Imagery along Surface Ruptures of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence, Southern California. Seismological Research Letters, 91(4), 2096-2107. doi: 10.1785/0220190338. SCEC Contribution 10111
Fletcher, J. M., Teran, O. J., Rockwell, T. K., Oskin, M. E., Hudnut, K. W., Spelz, R. M., Lacan, P., Dorsey, M. T., Ostermeijer, G., Mitchell, T. M., Akciz, S. O., Hernandez-Flores, A., Hinojosa, A., Peña-Villa, I., & Lynch, D. K. (2020). An analysis of the factors that control fault zone architecture and the importance of fault orientation relative to regional stress. GSA Bulletin, 132(9-10), 2084-2104. doi: 10.1130/B35308.1. SCEC Contribution 10004
Stewart, J. P., Brandenberg, S. J., Wang, P., Nweke, C., Hudson, K. S., Mazzoni, S., Bozorgnia, Y., Goulet, C. A., Hudnut, K. W., Davis, C. A., Ahdi, S. K., Zareian, F., Fayaz, J., Koehler, R. D., Chupik, C., Pierce, I., Williams, A. M., Akciz, S. O., Hudson, M. B., & Kishida, T. (2019). Preliminary report on engineering and geological effects of the July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance Association, 1-69. doi: 10.18118/G6H66K. SCEC Contribution 10141
Chen, T., Akciz, S. O., Hudnut, K. W., Zhang, D., & Stock, J. M. (2015). Fault slip distribution of the 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine Earthquake, California, estimated from post-earthquake airborne LiDAR data. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 105(2a). doi: 10.1785/0120130108. SCEC Contribution 1973
Teran, O. J., Fletcher, J. M., Oskin, M. E., Hudnut, K. W., Spelz, R. M., Akciz, S. O., Hernández Flores, A. P., & Morelan, A. E. (2015). Geologic and structural controls on rupture zone fabric: A field-based study of the 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor–Cucapah earthquake surface rupture. Geosphere, 11(3), 899-920. doi: 10.1130/GES01078.1. SCEC Contribution 1963
Fletcher, J. M., Teran, O. J., Rockwell, T. K., Oskin, M. E., Hudnut, K. W., Mueller, K. J., Spelz, R. M., Akciz, S. O., Masana, E., Faneros, G., Stock, J. M., Elliott, A. J., Gold, P. O., Liu, J., Gonzalez-Ortega, A. A., & Lynch, D. K. (2014). Assembly of a large earthquake from a complex fault system: surface rupture kinematics of the April 4, 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah Mw7.2 earthquake . Geosphere, 10(4), 797-827. doi: 10.1130/GES00933.1 . SCEC Contribution 1697
Hauksson, E., Stock, J. M., Bilham, R., Boese, M., Chen, X., Fielding, E. J., Galetzka, J. E., Hudnut, K. W., Hutton, K., Jones, L. M., Kanamori, H., Shearer, P. M., Steidl, J. H., Treiman, J. A., Wei, S., & Yang, W. (2013). Report on the August 2012 Brawley Earthquake Swarm in Imperial Valley, Southern California. Seismological Research Letters, 84(2), 177-189. doi: 10.1785/0220120169. SCEC Contribution 1678
Oskin, M. E., Arrowsmith, R. R., Hinojosa-Corona, A., Elliott, A. J., Fletcher, J. M., Fielding, E. J., Gold, P. O., Gonzàlez-Garcìa, J., Hudnut, K. W., Liu-Zeng, J., & Teran, O. J. (2012). Near-field deformation from the El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake revealed by differential LIDAR. Science, 335(6069), 702-705. doi: 10.1126/science.1213778. SCEC Contribution 1486
Salisbury, J. B., Rockwell, T. K., Middleton, T. J., & Hudnut, K. W. (2012). LiDAR and Field Observations of Earthquake Slip Distribution for the Central San Jacinto Fault. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 102(2), 598-619. doi: 10.1785/0120110068. SCEC Contribution 1470
Wei, S., Fielding, E. J., LePrince, S., Sladen, A., Avouac, J., Helmberger, D. V., Hauksson, E., Chu, R., Simons, M., Hudnut, K. W., Herring, T. A., & Briggs, R. (2011). Superficial simplicity of the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake of Baja, California in Mexico. Nature GeoScience,. doi: 10.1038/NGEO1213. SCEC Contribution 1622
Graves, R. W., Aagaard, B. T., & Hudnut, K. W. (2011). The ShakeOut Earthquake Source and Ground Motion Simulations. Earthquake Spectra, 27(2), 273-291. doi: 10.1193/1.3570677. SCEC Contribution 1427
Lynch, D. K., Hudnut, K. W., & Dearborn, D. S. (2010). Low Altitude Aerial Color Digital Photographic Survey of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain. Seismological Research Letters, 81, 453-459. SCEC Contribution 1406
Behr, W. M., Rood, D. H., Fletcher, K. E., Guzman, N. E., Finkel, R., Hanks, T. C., Hudnut, K. W., Kendrick, K. J., Platt, J. P., Sharp, W. D., Weldon, R. J., & Yule, D. (2010). Uncertainties in slip rate estimates for the Mission Creek strand of the southern San Andreas Fault at Biskra Palms Oasis, southern California. Geological Society of America Bulletin,. SCEC Contribution 1292
Fletcher, K. E., Sharp, W. D., Kendrick, K. J., Behr, W. M., Hudnut, K. W., & Hanks, T. C. (2009). 230Th/U dating of a late Pleistocene alluvial fan along the southern San Andreas fault. Geological Society of America Bulletin,. SCEC Contribution 1290
Graves, R. W., Aagaard, B. T., Hudnut, K. W., Star, L. M., Stewart, J. P., & Jordan, T. H. (2008). Broadband Simulations for Mw 7.8 Southern San Andreas Earthquakes: Ground Motion Sensitivity to Rupture Speed. Geophysical Research Letters, 35(22). doi: 10.1029/2008GL035750. SCEC Contribution 1238
Hudnut, K. W., Bock, Y., Galetzka, J. E., Webb, F. H., & Young, W. (2002). The Southern California Integrated GPS Network (SCIGN). In Y. Fujinawa, & A. Yoshida (Eds.), Seismotectonics in Convergent Plate Boundary, (, pp. 167-189) Tokyo, Japan: TERRAPUB SCEC Contribution 845
Hudnut, K. W., Bock, Y., Galetzka, J. E., Webb, F. H., & Young, W. (2002). The Southern California Integrated GPS Network (SCIGN). In Y. Fujinawa, & A. Yoshida (Eds.), Seismotectonics in Convergent Plate Boundary, (, pp. 167-189) , : TERRAPUB SCEC Contribution 679
Hudnut, K. W., Borsa, A. A., Glennie, C. L., & Minster, J. B. (2002). High-Resolution Topography along Surface Rupture of the 16 October 1999 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake (Mw 7.1) from Airborne Laser Swath Mapping. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 92(4), 1570-1576. doi: 10.1785/0120000934. SCEC Contribution 637
Hudnut, K. W., King, N. E., Galetzka, J. E., Stark, K. F., Behr, J., Aspiotes, A. G., Van Wyk, S., Moffitt, R., Dockter, S., & Wyatt, F. K. (2002). Continuous GPS Observations of Postseismic Deformation Following the 16 October 1999 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake (Mw 7.1). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 92(4), 1403-1422. doi: 10.1785/0120000912. SCEC Contribution 634
Deng, J., Hudnut, K. W., Gurnis, M., & Hauksson, E. (1999). Stress Loading From Viscous Flow in the Lower Crust and Triggering of Aftershocks Following the 1994 Northridge, California, Earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 26(21), 3209-3212. SCEC Contribution 465
Bock, Y., van Domselaar, M., Fang, P., & Hudnut, K. W. (1998). Southern California Permanent GPS Geodetic Array: Continuous Measurements of Crustal Deformation in the Los Angeles Basin between the 1992 Landers and 1994 Northridge Earthquakes. Poster Presentation at Northridge Earthquake Research Conference. SCEC Contribution 382
Bock, Y., Wdowinski, S., Fang, P., Zhang, J., Williams, S., Johnson, H., Behr, J., Genrich, J. F., Dean, J., van Domselaar, M., Agnew, D. C., Wyatt, F. K., Stark, K. F., Oral, B., Hudnut, K. W., King, R. W., Herring, T. A., Dinardo, S., Young, W., Jackson, D. D., & Gurtner, W. (1997). Southern California Permanent GPS Geodetic Array: Continuous measurements of regional crustal deformation between the 1992 Landers and 1994 Northridge earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102(B8), 55-61. doi: 10.1029/97JB01379. SCEC Contribution 328b
Prescott, W., Bock, Y., Hudnut, K. W., Watkins, M. M., Agnew, D. C., Donnellan, A., Fenske, L., Hager, B. H., Jackson, D. D., Mori, J., D’Onofrio, D., Young, B., Webb, F. H., & Wyatt, F. K. (1996). Operations Plan for the Southern California Integrated GPS Network, Fiscal Year, 1996. , USA: U.S. Geological Survey. SCEC Contribution 362
Wald, D. J., Heaton, T. H., & Hudnut, K. W. (1996). The Slip History of the 1994 Northridge, California, Earthquake Determined from Strong-Motion, Teleseismic, GPS, and Leveling Data. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 86(1B, supplement), S49-S70. SCEC Contribution 239
Hudnut, K. W., Shen, Z., Murray, M., McClusky, S., King, R. W., Herring, T. A., Hager, B. H., Fang, P., Donnellan, A., & Bock, Y. (1996). Co-seismic Displacements of the 1994 Northridge, California, Earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 86(1B, supplement), S19-S36. SCEC Contribution 153
Hudnut, K. W. (1995). Earthquake geodesy and hazard monitoring. Reviews of Geophysics, 33(S1), 249-255. doi: 10.1029/95RG00406 . SCEC Contribution 237
Bennett, R. A., Reilinger, R., Rodi, W., Li, Y., Toksos, N., & Hudnut, K. W. (1995). Coseismic Fault Slip Associated with the 1992 Mw 6.1 Joshua Tree California Earthquake: Implications for the Joshua Tree-Landers Earthquake Sequence. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100(B4), 6443-6461. doi: 10.1029/94JB02944. SCEC Contribution 235
Hudnut, K. W., Bock, Y., Cline, M. W., Fang, P., Feng, Y., Freymueller, J. T., Ge, X., Gross, K. W., Jackson, D. D., King, N. E., Larsen, S., Shen, Z., Lisowski, M., Zhang, J., & Svarc, J. (1994). Coseismic Displacements of the 1992 Landers Earthquake Sequence. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 84(3), 625-645. SCEC Contribution 94
Peltzer, G., Hudnut, K. W., & Feigl, K. L. (1994). Analysis of Coseismic Surface Displacement Gradients Using Radar Interferometry: New Insights into the Landers Earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99(B11), 21971-21981. SCEC Contribution 238
Bodin, P., Bilham, R., Behr, J., Gomberg, J. S., & Hudnut, K. W. (1994). Slip Triggered on Southern California Faults by the 1992 Joshua Tree, Landers and Big Bear Earthquakes. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 84(3), 806-816. SCEC Contribution 236
O'Johnson, H., Agnew, D. C., & Hudnut, K. W. (1994). Extremal Bounds on Earthquake Movement from Geodetic Data: Application to the Landers Earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 84(3), 660-667. SCEC Contribution 161
Bock, Y., Agnew, D. C., Fang, P., Genrich, J. F., Hager, B. H., Herring, T. A., Hudnut, K. W., King, R. W., Larsen, S., Minster, J. B., Stark, K. F., & Wyatt, F. K. (1993). Detection of Crustal Deformation from the Landers Earthquake Sequence using Continuous Geodetic Measurements. Nature, 361(6410), 337-340. doi: 10.1038/361337a0. SCEC Contribution 8
Sieh, K., Jones, L. M., Hauksson, E., Hudnut, K. W., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Heaton, T. H., Hough, S. E., Hutton, K., Kanamori, H., Lilje, A., Lindvall, S. C., McGill, S. F., Mori, J., Rubin, C. M., Spotila, J., Stock, J. M., Thio, H., Treiman, J. A., Wernicke, B. P., & Zachariasen, J. (1993). Near Field Investigations of the Landers Earthquake Sequence, April-July, 1992. Science, 260(5105), 171-176. doi: 10.1126/science.260.5105.171. SCEC Contribution 25
Lindvall, S. C., & Hudnut, K. W. (1992). Field Guide to the Area of Maximum Displacements Along the 1992 Landers Earthquake Rupture. , : . SCEC Contribution 81
Rockwell, T. K., Lindvall, S. C., Hudnut, K. W., Hirabayashi, C., & Baker, E. (1991). Minimum Holocene Slip Rate for the Rose Canyon Fault in San Diego, California. In P. Abbott, & . (Eds.), Environmental Perils, San Diego Region, (, pp. 37-46) San Diego, California, : published by the San Diego Assoc. of Geologists for the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting SCEC Contribution 83
Frost, E., Baker, E., Hudnut, K. W., Lindvall, S. C., & Rockwell, T. K. (1991). Computer-Enhanced Imaging of Neotectonic Features Exposed within Trench Faces: Techniques for Seeing the Unseen Being Developed on the Rose Canyon Fault Zone. In P. Abbott, & . (Eds.), Environmental Perils, San Diego Region, (, pp. ) San Diego, California, : published by the San Diego Assoc. of Geologists for the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting SCEC Contribution 82

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