From February 15-20, an LFE advance team conducted field visits in the disaster zone as part of a joint reconnaissance effort with GEER. The LFE field team included Ayse Hortacsu (M.EERI 2000) from the Applied Technology Council and Ayhan Irfanoglu (M.EERI 1994) from Purdue University, along with Prof. M. Altuğ Erberik from the Middle East Technical University (ODTU) and M. Fırat Aydın from the TED University.
