# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-c-hanks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:24:26.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-c-hanks"
name: "Thomas C. Hanks"
slug: "thomas-c-hanks"
description: "Thomas Colgrove Hanks was an American seismologist. He worked for the US Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park, California. Dr. Hanks was a member of the Seismological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the Geological Society of America, the Peninsula Geological Society at Stanford, and many related geological societies. Dr. Hanks authored dozens of scholarly papers in strong-motion seismology and tectonic geomorphology."
tagline: "American seismologist (1944–2024)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1944-11-29"
deathDate: "2024-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.06
  momentum:             13.12051725965445
  historical:           9.614184
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Thomas Hanks (vetenskapsman)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "توماس هانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Hanks"
    title: "Thomas C. Hanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hanks_(sciencisto)"
    title: "Tom Hanks (sciencisto)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Hanks"
    title: "Thomas C. Hanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hanks_(seismologi)"
    title: "Tom Hanks (seismologi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hanks_(seismeola%C3%AD)"
    title: "Tom Hanks (seismeolaí)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A1_%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%A1"
    title: "תומאס הנקס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Hanks"
    title: "Thomas C. Hanks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%86%A0%EB%A7%88%EC%8A%A4_C._%ED%96%89%ED%81%AC%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "토마스 C. 행크스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Hanks"
    title: "Thomas C. Hanks"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump