Lucy Jones
Lucy Jones has been a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and a visiting research associate at the Seismological Laboratory of Caltech since 1983. She is currently serving as the chief scientist for the Multi Hazards Initiative in Southern California, developing a new program to integrate hazards science in urban areas with economic analysis and emergency response to increase community resiliency to natural disasters.
Jones' most recent accomplishment is leading the creation of the Great Southern California ShakeOut, a public emergency preparedness event involving more than five million people. She is also a commissioner of the California Seismic Safety Commission, and serves on the California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council. Jones has authored more than 80 papers on research seismology with a primary interest in the physics of earthquakes, foreshocks, and earthquake hazard assessment, especially in Southern California. She has received numerous awards, including the Alquist Award from the California Earthquake Safety Foundation and the Shoemaker Award for Lifetime Achievements in Science Communication from the USGS.
Jones received a bachelor’s degree in Chinese Language and Literature, Magna Cum Laude, from Brown University in 1976 and a PhD in geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. Dr. Jones, a fourth-generation resident of Southern California, currently lives in La Cañada with her husband, Dr. Egill Hauksson, also a seismologist.
Related Resources from Lucy Jones
The ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario—A Story That Southern Californians Are Writing
U.S. Geological Survey, 2007
Related Resources by Lucy Jones from the Natural Hazards Library Staff
The ShakeOut Scenario
U.S. Geological Survey,
2008