Results: Earthquake Kate: The Earthquake Lady

*wiki*: Kate Hutton, nicknamed the Earthquake Lady, Dr. Kate, or Earthquake Kate is a staff seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Hutton received a B.S. in astronomy from Pennsylvania State University in 1971, and an M.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976) in astronomy from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has worked for the Caltech earthquake center as a seismologist her entire career. After graduation, Hutton says she found astronomy jobs scarce, so switched careers. She sees the two professions as similar: "Earth is a planet, after all, so it's sort of a matter of looking down rather than looking up." Most of her job is consumed by bureaucracy and data analysis, but immediately following a major earthquake, especially in Southern California, Hutton is sought by the media for her professional commentary. Her local celebrity is such that people take note of her shopping, whether she is replacing glassware or stocking up. Hutton sometimes appears with her United States Geological Survey colleague "Dr. Lucy" Jones, who has been appearing on television since the 1980s. According to LA Weekly, "Hutton strikes just the right balance between calm and caution" in explaining earthquake science to viewers. Hutton has been an out lesbian since 1984, and is often listed as a "lesbian icon". Hutton was the consulting seismologist for the 1990 monster movie Tremors. The seismic theories were for once well presented, the only liberty taken for theatrical effect was that the apparent seismic response of the propagation of the fictitious creatures in the film ("graboids") was too low-frequency for the ground shaking likely to be realistically caused by the graboids. Check off what is true for you?

I worked at CalTech with the Red Cross for their preparedness event and jokingly told people, gee I hope I get to meet Kate, my earthquake Mom. She was there, much to my surprise and I got to shake her hand! (Check that off my bucket list). In California, after having a quake and being a Mom, I and I am sure others, have hung on to every word coming from Kate (and who is now retired, Lucy Jones). We wait to hear, this was not the big one, the chances are dwindling that this was a foreshock to a larger earthquake, you're going to be ok, here is what to do to take precaution. Just hearing her words, knowing it was true scientific feedback put me at ease. Of course, on Thursday, I was so overwhelmed to finally had met her, that I wanted to share it with the one person who knows how much she means to me; my ex husband, the one who sexually assaulted me. At that moment, a bittersweet love/hate tug of war in my heart in what to do. [I did not email him]. Have you ever been in a situation where the one person who would know your feelings was not the one you should contact?

If you said yes, did you contact that person(s) or not?

I learned in school, that so often people forget the pain of a relationship, remembering only the good times, thus jumping back in with that person. The relationship becomes one with a revolving door. Have you ever experienced this?