China: what the public records say, 12 Oct to 18 Oct 2026

Geo›Countries›China›Week of 12 Oct to 18 Oct 2026

Signals · now against their own normaldashed line: the normal

InternetRouted IPv4 address spaceRIPE RIS and RouteViews · 7 days, hourly

1,084,560normal

AirPLA aircraft around TaiwanTaiwan MND · 30 days, daily

2counts too small for a ratio

SeaShip transits, Taiwan StraitIMF PortWatch · 30 days, daily

246normal

SeaShip transits, Bohai StraitIMF PortWatch · 30 days, daily

149normal

SeaPLA ships around TaiwanTaiwan MND · 30 days, daily

5counts too small for a ratio

GroundFire clusters, Taiwan StraitNASA FIRMS · 30 days, daily

15counts too small for a ratio

Measured by FirmTape's own collectors from public data. A normal needs history before it means anything, so a young series says when it will be ready instead of drawing a line. No chart for a sector means no collector sees that country, not that it is calm.

All Government Air GPS Sea Internet Ground Space AttentionNotable only

1 notable · 5 routine, dimmed, hide them

Sun 18 Oct 2026

20:00SeaPH CN · HYDROPAC 3026/26: Space Debris (South China Sea. Sulu Sea.)NGA

20:00SeaCN · NAVAREA XI 0475/26: South China Sea, Northern Part And Sulu Sea.Japan Coast Guard

Fri 16 Oct 2026

20:00SeaCN · NAVAREA XI 0470/26: South China Sea, Southern Part. Submarine Cable Repairing Works BYJapan Coast Guard

Thu 15 Oct 2026

13:23SpaceCN · 2026-234: 11 objects catalogued, 2026-234A and othersCelesTrak

12:51SpaceCN · Reentry: OBJECT D (payload, China) on 2026-10-14CelesTrak

Mon 12 Oct 2026

20:00SeaKP CN JP · NAVAREA XI 0462/26: Japan Sea, East China Sea And North Pacific, Japan.Japan Coast Guard

What this page is not. It does not predict anything and it does not beat the news: almost every record here is published openly and reaches reporters the same minute it reaches this page. Where the slow signals come from. Internet outages, military aviation, emptied airspace, GPS interference and ship traffic are measured on our own collector server and publish only after each has learned its normal. Alerts by email, Telegram or webhook, and the records through an API and MCP, are on the Geo plans. Rows marked backfill came from a source's own history rather than from live collection, so they never count toward how fast we saw something.

Last 30 days

W4212 to 18 Oct61 notable

W415 to 11 Oct93 notable W4028 Sep to 4 Oct83 notable W3921 to 27 Sep1110 notable W3814 to 20 Sep43 notable

Sources

40 answering14 quiet what each one reads

Congressstale 6 hEASAstale 6 hEU sanctionsstale 6 hFEMAstale 6 hFederal Registerstale 6 hIAEAstale 6 hNASA FIRMSstale 6 hSafecaststale 6 hTaiwan MNDstale 6 hUCDPstale 5 hWikipedia readsstale 6 hadsb.lolstale 4 hadsb.lolstale 4 hadsb.lolstale 4 h

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AMSA1 hAviation Weather Center56 minBarentsWatch2 minCanada1 hCelesTrak2 minCopernicus EMS1 hCouncil of the EU1 hDanish Maritime Authority1 minENTSO-E1 hFAA56 minFAA NAS Status12 minFintraffic Digitraffic3 minGDACS1 hGDELT1 hIMF PortWatch6 hJapan Coast Guard1 hJapan MOFA12 minMARAD609 hNASA Black Marble2 minNGA56 minNOAA SWPC56 minNOAA Tsunami7 minNational Hurricane Center1 hNational Weather Service7 minOFAC1 hPentagon1 hRIPE RIS2 minReliefWeb1 hSpace-Track0 minSpanish Navy IHM1 hState Dept advisories1 hTor Metrics6 hUK FCDO7 minUK Ministry of Defence1 hUK sanctions1 hUS embassy alerts0 minUSCG NAVCEN1 hUSGS7 minWhite House56 minWikipedia edits1 h

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