Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

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The quake struck the country's north just days after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake in the same region injured 50 people.