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Thomas H. Jordan

Expert on earthquakes and seismology
  • USC University Professor
  • Holder of the W.M. Keck Foundation Chair in Geological Sciences
  • Professor of geophysics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 821-1237
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Expertise

  • seismology
  • earthquakes
  • geodynamics

Additional Information

  • Director, Southern California Earthquake Center
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences; American Philosophical Society
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Chair, National Research Council’s Committee on Basic Research opportunities in the Earth Sciences
  • Recipient, Geological Society of America’s Woollard Award (1998); American Geophysical Union’s Macelwane Medal (1983)