Thorne Lay (born 1956) is an American seismologist.
[1] He was born in Casper, Wyoming in 1956, and raised in El Paso, Texas.
He is a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
from the University of Rochester in 1978, a M.S.
from the California Institute of Technology in 1980, and a Ph.D. also from California Institute of Technology, in 1983.