Rong-Gong Lin II is a Metro reporter based in San Francisco who specializes in covering statewide earthquake safety issues and the COVID-19 pandemic. He won the California Newspaper Publishers Assn.’s Freedom of Information Award and the University of Florida’s Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award. He was a finalist for the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize for Excellence in Investigative Reporting and the Knight Award for Public Service. A San Francisco area native, he graduated from UC Berkeley in 2004.
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A magnitude 4.0 earthquake rattled parts of Southern California Sunday morning.
Oct. 6, 2024
Doctors are urging everyone age 6 months and older to get an updated COVID vaccine now, before another expected resurgence of transmission this autumn and winter.
Oct. 2, 2024
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported less than a mile south of Ontario International Airport early Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey says.
Oct. 1, 2024
Climate change is exacerbating the risk of potentially dangerous mosquito-borne diseases in California — threatening to turn more of those annoying-but-harmless bites into severe illnesses, experts say.
Sept. 30, 2024
Saturday’s earthquake was the seventh of magnitude 3 or greater since Sept. 12, when a magnitude 4.7 earthquake just north of Malibu was widely felt across Southern California.
Sept. 28, 2024
The Gas Company Tower, one of Los Angeles’ tallest skyscrapers, may get a new lease on life if a sale goes through. But officials want to make sure it’s seismically safe.
Sept. 25, 2024
The coronavirus subvariant XEC is drawing more attention as a potential threat heading into late autumn and winter — prompting doctors to urge residents to get an updated COVID vaccine.
Sept. 23, 2024
El terremoto del sábado fue el sexto de magnitud 3 o mayor desde que un terremoto de magnitud 4,7 en la misma zona se sintió ampliamente en el sur de California el 12 de septiembre.
Sept. 21, 2024
Saturday’s event was the sixth earthquake of magnitude 3 or higher since a magnitude 4.7 earthquake in the same area was widely felt across Southern California on Sept. 12.
Sept. 21, 2024
There’s now an entire generation of Californians who have grown up without experiencing the damaging earthquakes we saw in the 1980s and 1990s.
Sept. 13, 2024