On April 18 , 1906 at 5:13 AM , San Francisco was hit by an earthquake . Twenty aftershocks continued to shake the city throughout the day . Chinatown was severely hit by the tremors . Buildings collapsed and a fire spread across the area , leaving Chinatown — and the heart of San Francisco — in ruins . Several newspaper plants and buildings were destroyed in the fire , including '' Chung Sai Yat Po '' ’s . San Francisco 's newspapers were temporarily moved to Oakland , where '' Chung Sai Yat Po '' published its first post-earthquake , hand-copied issue on April 26 . It stayed and operated in Oakland until 1907
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
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