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Season 42 · Episode 16
Landed Wed, 25 Feb 2015 · 21:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 42, Episode 16 of NOVA aired Wednesday, 25 February 2015 at 9pm ET on PBS.
- S42E16Hagia Sophia: Istanbul's Ancient MysteryWhether serving as a Christian church, Islamic mosque, or secular museum, Hagia Sophia and its soaring dome have inspired reverence and awe. For 800 years, it was the largest enclosed building in the world—the Statue of Liberty can fit beneath its dome with room to spare. How has it survived its location on one of the world's most active seismic faults, which has inflicted a dozen devastating earthquakes since it was built in 537? As Istanbul braces for the next big quake, a team of architects and engineers is urgently investigating Hagia Sophia's seismic secrets. Follow engineers as they build a massive 8-ton model of the building's core structure, place it on a motorized shake table, and hit it with a series of simulated quakes, pushing it to collapse—a fate that the team is determined to avoid with the real building.
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