1. Lucile M Jones was born on 1955 and is an American seismologist and public voice for earthquake science and earthquake safety in California.
20 Facts About Lucy Jones
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One of the foremost and trusted public authorities on earthquakes, Jones is viewed by many in Southern California as "the Beyonce of earthquakes" who is frequently called upon to provide information on recent earthquakes.
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Lucy Jones is currently a research associate at the Seismological Laboratory at Caltech and chief scientist and founder of the Dr Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society.
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Lucy Jones was previously at the US Geological Survey from 1985 to 2016, where she conducted research in the areas of foreshocks, seismotectonics, and the application of hazards science to improve societal resilience after natural disasters.
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Lucy Jones has authored over 100 papers on research seismology with primary interest in the physics of earthquakes, foreshocks and earthquake hazard assessment, and the seismotectonics of southern California.
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Lucy Jones visited China in February 1979 in order to study the 1975 Haicheng earthquake, which had apparently been successfully predicted by the Chinese authorities based on an analysis of its foreshock sequence.
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Lucy Jones is a past Secretary of the Seismology Section of the American Geophysical Union, and past director and past chair of the publications committee of the Seismological Society of America.
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Lucy Jones served as the Science Advisor for Risk Reduction for the USGS Natural Hazards Mission Area, as part of the SAFRR Project.
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Lucy Jones worked as a Commissioner of the California Seismic Safety Commission, which advises the governor and legislature on seismic safety, by appointment of Governor Gray Davis in 2002 and reappointment by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2005 and served on the California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council.
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Lucy Jones was in residence at the University of Oregon's Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics as the Wayne Morse Chair, where she provided public talks on disaster preparedness and science communication.
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Since 1986, Lucy Jones has given many interviews to the press on behalf of the US Geological Survey following significant earthquakes in southern California.
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Lucy Jones expressed some regret that she became a symbol that "women can have it all".
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In 2014, Lucy Jones was embedded at Los Angeles City Hall, a move by the USGS that Caltech's Tom Heaton credited with the September 2015 passage of a retrofitting plan that would increase seismic survivability of over 15,000 structures largely built of soft first story and non-ductile concrete.
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In light of her reputation as a respected and trusted authority on earthquakes, Lucy Jones has been called upon for her comments regarding other natural disasters and crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In 2022, Lucy Jones founded an initiative called "Tempo: Music for Climate Action" to encourage climate scientists, social scientists, and musicians to gather and explore climate issues.
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In 2024, Lucy Jones was one of USA Today's Women of the Year.
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Lucy Jones's uncle was an American diplomat living in Taiwan, and she moved to Taiwan to live with her uncle's family.
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Lucy Jones is married to fellow seismologist Egill Hauksson and they have two sons.
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Lucy Jones is a musician and composer, who plays a Renaissance stringed instrument called the viol.
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In Nomine Terra Calens is her musical interpretation of global temperature data from 1880 to 2017, which shows an increase at what Lucy Jones calls a "terrifying" rate.