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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Lucile M. Jones is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable focus areas within Geophysics, Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's main topics of work include earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, seismic waves and analysis, risk perception and management, disaster management and resilience, public relations and crisis communication, and high-pressure geophysics and materials.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lucile M. Jones include Egill Hauksson, Joann M. Stock, Allen Husker, Cherith Moses, and Teena Chopra.

Recent publications by the researcher feature the following:

  • "Seismicity, Stress State, and Style of Faulting of the Ridgecrest-Coso Region from the 1930s to 2019: Seismotectonics of an Evolving Plate Boundary Segment," 2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • "Empowering the public with earthquake science," 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Synthesis of Current Seismicity and Tectonics Along the 1857 Mw7.9 Fort Tejon Earthquake Rupture and the Southernmost San Andreas Fault, California, USA," 2024, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "EMODnet Geology: pan-European assessment of coastal resilience and vulnerability," 2025, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
  • "SEISMOTECTONICS, SEISMICITY, AND STRESS STATE OF THE RIDGECREST-COSO REGION FROM THE 1930S THROUGH 2019," 2020, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

The venues where Lucile M. Jones frequently publishes include:

  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

In 2015, Lucile M. Jones was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

  • New evidence on the state of stress of the San Andreas fault system

    Mark D. Zoback;Mary Lou Zoback;Van S. Mount;John Suppe

  • Seismicity Remotely Triggered by the Magnitude 7.3 Landers, California, Earthquake

    D. P. Hill;P.A. Reasenberg;A. Michael;W.J. Arabaz

  • Earthquake Hazard After a Mainshock in California

    Paul A. Reasenberg;Lucile M. Jones

  • Near-Field Investigations of the Landers Earthquake Sequence, April to July 1992

    Kerry Sieh;Lucile M Jones;Egill Hauksson;Kenneth W Hudnut

  • The 2002 Denali fault earthquake, Alaska: a large magnitude, slip-partitioned event.

    Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Peter J Haeussler;Jeffrey T Freymueller;Arthur D Frankel

  • Determination of earthquake energy release and ML using TERRAscope

    Hiroo Kanamori;Jim Mori;Egill Hauksson;Thomas H. Heaton

  • Some characteristics of foreshocks and their possible relationship to earthquake prediction and premonitory slip on faults

    Lucile M. Jones;Peter Molnar

  • Real-time forecasts of tomorrow's earthquakes in California

    Matthew C. Gerstenberger;Stefan Wiemer;Lucile M. Jones;Paul A. Reasenberg

  • Properties of aftershock sequences in southern California

    Carl Kisslinger;Lucile M. Jones

  • The 1992 Landers Earthquake Sequence: Seismological observations

    Egill Hauksson;Lucile M. Jones;Kate Hutton;Donna Eberhart-Phillips

  • The 1994 Northridge earthquake sequence in California: Seismological and tectonic aspects

    Egill Hauksson;Lucile M. Jones;Kate Hutton

  • Earthquake aftershocks: update.

    P. A. Reasenberg;L. M. Jones

  • Seismicity, 1980-86

    D.P. Hill;J.P. Eaton;L.M. Jones

  • Focal mechanisms and the state of stress on the San Andreas Fault in southern California

    Lucile M. Jones

  • Operational Earthquake Forecasting: Some Thoughts on Why and How

    Thomas H. Jordan;Lucile M. Jones

  • The 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake sequence in Los Angeles, southern California: Seismological and tectonic analysis

    Egill Hauksson;Lucile M. Jones

  • The 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake Sequence: Complex Conjugate Strike-Slip Faulting

    Egill Hauksson;Lucile M. Jones;Kate Hutton

  • The Shakeout scenario

    Lucile M. Jones;Richard Bernknopf;Dale Cox;James Goltz

  • Foreshocks and time-dependent earthquake hazard assessment in southern California

    Lucile M. Jones

  • Prediction Probabilities From Foreshocks

    Duncan Carr Agnew;Lucile M. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Egill Hauksson
Egill Hauksson California Institute of Technology
Kenneth W. Hudnut
Kenneth W. Hudnut United States Geological Survey
Hiroo Kanamori
Hiroo Kanamori California Institute of Technology
Jim Mori
Jim Mori Kyoto University
Patrick J. Lynett
Patrick J. Lynett University of Southern California
Eric L. Geist
Eric L. Geist United States Geological Survey
Thomas H. Heaton
Thomas H. Heaton California Institute of Technology
Jose C. Borrero
Jose C. Borrero University of Southern California
Kerry E Sieh
Kerry E Sieh Nanyang Technological University
Susan E. Hough
Susan E. Hough United States Geological Survey

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