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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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
El temblor se produjo alrededor de las 7:30 a.m. y se sintió en toda la región.
Sept. 12, 2024
It’s been an unusually active year for earthquakes in Los Angeles, as Thursday morning’s magnitude 4.7 Malibu temblor shows.
Sept. 12, 2024
California’s COVID summer may no longer be heating up — though officials caution the virus continues to circulate at levels high enough to pack a punch.
Sept. 9, 2024
Los sismos, de magnitudes 3,5 y 3,9, ocurrieron con una diferencia de media hora aproximadamente. El temblor se sintió en lugares tan lejanos como Los Ángeles, el condado de Orange y el condado de San Diego.
Sept. 7, 2024
The quakes, of magnitudes 3.5 and 3.9, occurred within about a half hour of each other. Shaking was felt as far away as Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego County.
Sept. 7, 2024
COVID remains at stubbornly high levels in California, and officials warn that transmission could again accelerate following the busy Labor Day holiday weekend.
Sept. 3, 2024