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  • Quake study tests a home's strength

    11/13/2006 8:50:12 AM PST · by bd476 · 16 replies · 398+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | November 13, 2006 | Robert Lee Hotz
    Engineer Andre Filiatrault expects a major earthquake in Buffalo on Tuesday morning — a temblor as powerful as the 1994 Northridge earthquake that caused $40 billion in damage ... ...Filiatrault and his colleagues at the State University of New York at Buffalo plan to subject an entire house to a magnitude-6.7 earthquake Tuesday for a systematic assessment of how a typical wooden suburban home holds up ... Built to California construction code, the 40-ton building is the largest wooden structure ever tested in a simulated earthquake, the engineers said. ... The sudden swaying and vibrations will simulate the intensities...