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The Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) announced on May 20 that the units established earlier in a bid to assist displaced earthquake victims returning to their hometowns for the May 14 ballot will continue to work for the second round as well.

Health professionals in the earthquake zone still experience serious housing problems, as 80 percent of them are unable to find a place of their own, reveals a survey conducted by the Turkish Medical Association (TTB).

As part of the measures to be implemented against the earthquake risk, an inventory of all buildings throughout the country will be prepared and a digital data repository will be created to determine damage in the quake zones, Environment, Urbanism and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum has announced.

While aid support to the quake zone is still ongoing one month after the disaster, experts warned people about how they should support quake victims in a respectful manner.

Nine months after a powerful quake hit the Zagreb area, many of the victims still do not know when their homes will be rebuilt - and face a long winter in rented flats, hostels or even containers.

More than a thousand people could still be missing after Indonesia's devastating quake-tsunami, officials said on Oct. 5, drastically upping the total number of people unaccounted for a week after the disaster.