Argentina regularly receives cold air from the south that can reach low latitudes owing to the influence of the Andes. Cold waves are often accompanied with severe snow storms or extremely cold conditions that can have a devastating impact on its economy.
The Richter Scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake which is  another way of describing the energy released in the earthquake.
The Richter Scale. The richter scale is a scale that is used to find out how powerful an earthquake was that is determined by seismographic readings. The Richter Scale was named after the American seismologist Charles Richter, who was born in 1900 and died in 1985. It isone of the several very closely related methods that seismologist use to quantify the strength or magnitude of an earthquake.