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 goes from 1 to 9 1 meaning that you can barely feel the earthquake and 9 meaning that it was the most powerful earthquake that you can have also with a 9 you can defiantly feel the earthquake the mercalli scale or the modified mercalli scale is used to measure the intensity of an earthquake