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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The epicenter was about 4.6 miles north of Point Dume, in the mountains above Malibu’s city limits. It’s the seventh earthquake so far this year to rumble in this area.
Whooping cough — highly contagious and potentially dangerous — has surged in California to levels not seen since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The anti-vaccine activist could oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.
One of the dangers may come as a surprise to homeowners, as even relatively newer homes may have this defect.
A spate of notable quakes have rattled Southern California in recent months — a reminder that the last three decades of relative seismic quiet won’t last forever.
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake rattled parts of Southern California Sunday morning.
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.
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.