China: what the public records say, 26 Oct to 1 Nov 2026

Geo›Countries›China›Week of 26 Oct to 1 Nov 2026

Signals · now against their own normaldashed line: the normal

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

1,085,664normal

AirPLA aircraft around TaiwanTaiwan MND · 30 days, daily

32counts too small for a ratio

SeaShip transits, Taiwan StraitIMF PortWatch · 30 days, daily

240normal

SeaShip transits, Bohai StraitIMF PortWatch · 30 days, daily

156normal

SeaPLA ships around TaiwanTaiwan MND · 30 days, daily

7counts too small for a ratio

GroundFire clusters, Taiwan StraitNASA FIRMS · 30 days, daily

222.1x normal

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

3 notable · 4 routine, dimmed, hide them

Sat 31 Oct 2026

21:00AirTW CN · PLA activity around Taiwan: 32 aircraft sorties (26 across the median line), 7 navy ships, against a normal of 5 sortiesTaiwan MND

12:22GroundCN · GDACS Green Forest fires in ChinaGDACS

12:20GroundCN · GDACS Green Forest fires in ChinaGDACS

Wed 28 Oct 2026

23:00SeaKP CN JP · NAVAREA XI 0487/26: Japan Sea, East China Sea And North Pacific, Japan.Japan Coast Guard

23:00SeaKP CN JP · NAVAREA XI 0488/26: Japan Sea, East China Sea And North Pacific, Japan.Japan Coast Guard

08:00SeaTW CN · Taiwan Strait: 80 transits on 2026-10-22, 34% of its 28-day median 232.5 (PortWatch day 2026-10-22, published with a lag)IMF PortWatch

08:00SeaTW CN · Taiwan Strait: transits back to 324 on 2026-10-24, 139% of the pre-drop median 232.5 (PortWatch day 2026-10-24, published with a lag)IMF PortWatch

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

W4426 Oct to 1 Nov73 notable

W4319 to 25 Oct156 notable W4212 to 18 Oct71 notable W415 to 11 Oct93 notable W4028 Sep to 4 Oct20 notable

Sources

57 answering0 quiet what each one reads

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AMSA34 minAviation Weather Center4 minBarentsWatch2 minCanada1 hCelesTrak0 minCongress34 minCopernicus EMS34 minCopernicus Sentinel-1 via Planetary Computer4 minCopernicus Sentinel-2 via Planetary Computer4 minCouncil of the EU34 minDanish Maritime Authority3 minEASA2 hENTSO-E34 minEU sanctions2 hFAA4 minFAA NAS Status4 minFEMA2 hFederal Register2 hFintraffic Digitraffic2 minGDACS19 minGDELT34 minIAEA2 hIMF PortWatch20 hJapan Coast Guard34 minJapan MOFA4 minMARAD132 hNASA Black Marble3 minNASA FIRMS34 minNASA FIRMS34 minNGA34 minNOAA SWPC4 minNOAA Tsunami4 minNational Hurricane Center34 minNational Weather Service4 minOFAC34 minPentagon19 minRIPE RIS2 minReliefWeb34 minSafecast2 hSpace-Track2 minSpanish Navy IHM34 minState Dept advisories19 minTaiwan MND34 minTor Metrics2 hUCDP34 minUK FCDO14 minUK Ministry of Defence34 minUK sanctions34 minUS embassy alerts1 minUSCG NAVCEN34 minUSGS4 minWhite House4 minWikipedia edits1 hWikipedia reads2 hadsb.lol2 minadsb.lol2 minadsb.lol2 min

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