The latest edition of the LFE field guide covers a great variety of subjects from geosciences to engineering, emergency management, and social sciences. It emphasizes careful advance planning, outlines procedures for team coordination, describes responsibilities of project participants, and offers guidelines for specific data collection in the field. It contains various forms, international information sources and contact names, pre-departure checklist, and recommendations for further research. Although prepared primarily for EERI reconnaissance teams, the guide can be a useful tool for anyone involved in post-earthquake investigation. Loose-leaf publication with a specially created binder. September 1996, 196 pp. ISBN 0-943198-54-2.

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute is currently updating this guide. The 1996 publication sections are as follows:

• Section 1 -- Introduction
  
  
• Section 2 -- Activating an Earthquake Investigation
  
  
• Section 3 -- General Response Procedures
  
  
• Section 4 -- Responsibilities of LFE Project Participants
  
  
• Section 5 -- Geoscience-Field Investigation
  
  
• Section 6 -- Geotechincal Engineering-Field Investigation
  
  
• Section 7 -- Engineered Buildings-Field Investigation
  
  
• Section 8 -- Industrial Facilities-Field Investigation
  
  
• Section 9 -- Lifelines-Field Investigation
  
  
• Section 10 -- Transportation Structures-Field Investigation
  
  
• Section 11 -- Architectural and Nonstructural Elements-Field Investigation
  
  
• Section 12 -- Emergency Management and Response-Field Investigation
  
  
• Section 13 -- Societal Impacts-Field Investigation
  
  
• Section 14 -- Urban Planning and Public Policy Implications
  
  
• Section 15 -- Tsunami Impacts
  
  
• Appendix A -- Forms
  
  
• Appendix B -- Pre-Departure Checklist
  
  
• Appendix C -- Information Sources
  
  
• Appendix D -- International Contacts
  
  
• Appendix E -- Emergency Rendezvous Procedures