If it’s Lucy, I once heard her tell an idiot reporter who was demanding to know when the next aftershock would be that they tended to be random events, which makes them sort of... well... random. I enjoy her wit.
I appreciated years ago when she talked about “earthquake weather” and the myths surrounding it.
Dr. Kate Hutton
"That Earthquake Lady"
Current Work
California Institute of Technology
Seismological Laboratory
Scientific Support
Staff Seismologist
SeismoLab CalTech Dr. Kate Hutton
* Operations, Southern California Seismic Network
* Data analysis supervisor
* On-the-spot Public Information Person
* Lead Duty Seismologist & Duty Operator
* Moldy oldies: 1932 - 1959 earthquakes
* Data processing backlogs
* Earthquake catalog clean-up
Education
* Pennsylvania State University
B.S., Astronomy, 1971
* University of Maryland
M.S., Astronomy, 1973
Ph.D., Astronomy, 1976
Dr. Kate Hutton CalTech
Lucy Jones: Living with Earthquakes in Southern California
Dr. Lucy Jones is married and has children.
Lucile M. Jones is Scientist-in-charge for USGS earthquake activities in southern California, including leading the Pasadena office of the USGS, serving on the National Earthquake Program Council and coordinating all earthquake research funded by the USGS in southern California.
Dr. Jones is actively involved in seismological research and has authored over 50 papers on seismology, primarily in earthquake statistics and hazard assessment.
She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chinese Language and Literature, Magna Cum Laude, from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1976 and a Ph. D. in geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981.
She has been a seismologist with the US Geological Survey and a Visiting Research Associate at the Seismological Laboratory of Caltech since 1983.
As a graduate student, Dr. Jones was the first American scientist to work in China after normalization of relations in 1979, and spent twelve months at the State Seismological Bureau in Beijing from 1979 to 1983.
She is the Secretary of the Seismology Section of the American Geophysical Union and past Director of the Seismological Society of America.
Video of Dr. Jones (37 seconds)
Real Player: Living with Earthquakes in Southern California