Op-Ed: California’s earthquake expert Lucy Jones retires, but still awaits the ‘Big One’
Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said in a Twitter posting that she’s leaving federal service but will remain at the California Institute of Technology.
A young Winston Churchill once wrote that “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.†In Southern California, we can feel the same way when the ground starts to quake and we ride the earth like buckaroos until the shaking is over. The renowned U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones has studied our earthquakes, and gone on television time and again to give us information and comfort. Now the she's retiring – but still kind of wishing, in the nicest possible way, for a chance to experience a Big One.
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