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...