Ron Lin
Reporter at Los Angeles Times
Rong-Gong Lin II, reporter for @LATimes' metro desk, with a focus on #earthquakes, #coronavirus and peril. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Ron Lin
Los Angeles County reported another measles case involving a resident or traveler this week, prompting officials to renew their call for all residents to make sure they are up to date on their vaccinations. The latest case — the fourth so far this year — involves a visitor who recently arrived in L.A. County from another country, according to the county Department of Public Health.
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Rong-Gong Lin II |Ron Lin
Los Angeles County has declared a communitywide outbreak of hepatitis A, a highly contagious viral disease that can lead to lasting liver damage or even death. Although cases of hepatitis A are nothing new in the region, health officials are now expressing alarm both at the prevalence of the disease and who is becoming infected. The total of 165 cases recorded in 2024 was triple the number seen the year before, and the highest in the county in at least a decade, officials say.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Rong-Gong Lin II |Ron Lin
A beach campfire provides warmth at sunset on the Samoa Peninsula in Eureka on Sept. 2, 2022. A long-feared monster earthquake off California, Oregon and Washington could cause some coastal areas to sink by more than 6 feet, dramatically heightening the risk of flooding and radically reshaping the region with little to no warning.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Rong-Gong Lin II |Ron Lin
A sign advertising measles testing is seen outside the Seminole Hospital District in Seminole, Texas, on Feb. 21. Measles has been confirmed in a Los Angeles County resident who recently returned from Texas, a state that is in the midst of an outbreak of the highly infectious disease, health officials said Friday.
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4 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Rong-Gong Lin II |Ron Lin
Below California’s famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state’s collective consciousness. There is, of course, the mighty San Andreas, whose massive slip caused the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and whose notoriety has sparked multiple movies, video games, books, T-shirts and collectibles.
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Man dies trying to rescue his dog from the ocean at notorious California beach https://t.co/7dXcpp6cyz @_ClaraHarter
Magnitude 3.2 earthquake off coast sends weak shaking through Malibu, Westside L.A. Also: Burbank and San Francisco are making moves to improve earthquake safety https://t.co/7MIjykpmvp 👈
Monster quake could sink swath of California, dramatically heightening flood risk, study says https://t.co/mAmGq70UUg