Kathmandu: Situated on the precarious Himalayan seismic zone, Nepal is a highly earthquake-prone country and its quake-battered western mountainous region is likely to face a threat of a bigger earthquake, a seismologist says. According to the government’s post-disaster needs assessment (PDNA) report, Nepal is the 11th most earthquake-prone country in the world. So, when a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal’s remote western mountainous region late on Friday night, it was not the first one for the day or this month. The earthquake in western Nepal just before midnight on Friday was the latest in a long list of over 70 quakes in the country in 2023, official data showed.Kathmandu: Situated on the precarious Himalayan seismic zone, Nepal is a highly earthquake-prone country and its quake-battered western mountainous region is likely to face a threat of a bigger earthquake, a seismologist says. According to the government’s post-disaster needs assessment (PDNA) report, Nepal is the 11th most earthquake-prone country in the world. So, when a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal’s remote western mountainous region late on Friday night, it was not the first one for the day or this month. The earthquake in western Nepal just before midnight on Friday was the latest in a long list of over 70 quakes in the country in 2023, official data showed.