NOVA - Season 42 Episode 16
Whether serving as Christian church, Islamic mosque, or secular museum, Hagia Sophia and its saring 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 collapse—a fate that the team is determined to avoid with the real building.
First Air Date : 1974-03-03
Last Air date : 2024-11-27
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
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Subtitles :
- Season 42 : Episode 12014-09-10
- Season 42 : Episode 22014-09-24
- Season 42 : Episode 32014-10-08
- Season 42 : Episode 42014-10-08
- Season 42 : Episode 52014-10-22
- Season 42 : Episode 62014-10-29
- Season 42 : Episode 72014-11-05
- Season 42 : Episode 82014-11-12
- Season 42 : Episode 92014-11-19
- Season 42 : Episode 102014-12-03
- Season 42 : Episode 112015-01-14
- Season 42 : Episode 122015-01-21
- Season 42 : Episode 132015-01-28
- Season 42 : Episode 142015-02-11
- Season 42 : Episode 152015-02-18
- Season 42 : Episode 162015-02-25
- Season 42 : Episode 172015-04-15
- Season 42 : Episode 182015-04-22
- Season 42 : Episode 192015-05-06
- Season 42 : Episode 202015-05-13
- Season 42 : Episode 212015-07-15
- Season 42 : Episode 222015-07-29
