In 1960, Valdivia, a city in Chile, experienced the most powerful earthquake in recorded history – 9.5 on the Richter Scale – followed by a devastating tsunami. MIT students traveled to Valdivia to record stories of survival: The personal survival of those who lived through the disasters of 1960; the local Mapuche indigenous people; the ecology of a unique wetland created by the earthquake/tsunami. Also, two MIT students document a close-up look at animals and birds of the Galapagos, and the ecological pressures on them created by the fishing and tourism industries. Produced for Sprouts by members of Terrascope Radio, a radio production class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.