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 is a numerical scale used to describe an earthquakes magnitude each hole number increase on the Richter scale corresponds to 32 fold increase in seismic energy The moment magnitude scale takes into account the size of an earthquakes