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The National Earthquake Information Center has asked you to write a program for the following decision table to characterize an earthquake based on its Richter scale number.

Richter scale characterization

N<5.0 little or no damage
5.0 &#8804; n < 5.5 some damage
5.5 &#8804; n < 6.5 serious damage: walls may crack or fall
6.5 &#8804; n < 7.5 disaster: houses and buildings may collapse
Higher catastrophe: most buidings destroyed

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The attached code is well documented for you to follow easily.
Following is how the output may look once executed. (>> output from the program, > input to the program)

>>Enter earth quake measure in Richter scale
>5

>> some damage
.
.
.

>>Enter earth quake measure in Richter scale
>9

>> catastrophe: most buildings destroyed

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