Cecilia Sykala
ceciliasykala.bsky.social
Cecilia Sykala
@ceciliasykala.bsky.social
Astronomy, military aircraft, ships & submarines, volcanoes, earthquakes, space, cartography, topography, maps, Geography, Geology, OSINT, Anomalies
HUGE EARTHQUAKE Magnitude 7.1 Depth 8km
Rikaze Diqu TIBET Xizang China. Adjacent Mt. Everest.
Shallow -damaging, near fault lines.
Precursor quake 10 hrs ago, mag 5.
January 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Large. EARTHQUAKE magnitude 5.2 depth 10km shallow & damaging. Mohr IRAN.
9 hours ago.
January 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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We have 3 Red Herrings & 1 Can of worms In the Yellow Sea, China.
ROK military ship adjacent area of denial. MMSI number checks out, but it could be fake.

3 vessels with invalid MMSI numbers.
(1) United Kingdom unspecified vessel
cont……
@borrowed7time.bsky.social @mtanderson.bsky.social
January 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
AIRLINE INCIDENTS TIMELINE

avherald.com/h?list=&opt=1
The Aviation Herald
Aviation Herald - News, Incidents and Accidents in Aviation
avherald.com
December 30, 2024 at 9:03 AM
Reposted by Cecilia Sykala
I recently stepped down as an AE at a Springer:Nature journal for reasons similar to o the JHE board (where I also once served). Time to stop allowing ourselves to be exploited for corporate profit. We can do everything without them.
December 27, 2024 at 10:33 PM
GPSjamming around Plesetsk Russia, Cosmodrome 25th December, nothing previous.
No recent launches & none scheduled. Perhaps an unscheduled one imminent.

GPSjam.org

@lemonodor.bsky.social @borrowed7time.bsky.social
December 27, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Russia’s New multi-purpose nuclear submarine (APL) K-564 "Arkhangelsk" has completed Sea trials.
The main strike weapons of the submarines are the Onyx and Caliber-PL cruise missiles

GPSjamming around Arkhangelsk, near Severodvinsk.
@covertshores.bsky.social
December 27, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 involved in cable cutting is now on her way to Port Said, Egypt, then the Suez Canal.
December 23, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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Large EARTHQUAKE hits CUBA.
Magnitude 5.9, shallow, so damaging.

The epicenter was located 35 kilometers southwest of the town of Chivirico, the capital of the Guamá municipality in Santiago de Cuba
December 23, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Russian cargo vessel “Sparta IV”, part of the Dark Fleet- Ghost ships, transporting weapons, was on her way to Baltiysk, Kalingrad, BUT NOW is headed to St. Petersburg.
December 19, 2024 at 4:23 AM
Unusual area in the Java Sea with medium GPSjamming.
No interesting vessels nearby or military aircraft on replay.
GPSjam.org
@lemonodor.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 4:16 AM
Fire reported after drones attack at the oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk of Rostov region.
December 19, 2024 at 4:00 AM
‘Chinese’ ‘new‘ ship MuLAN, 174,000-cbm liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier finally has docked at Corpus Christie Texas.
First picked up 28/11 north of Venuzuela.
Name swapping MuLan & Lan.
( built for S2S transfers)

@michellewb.bsky.social
December 14, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Russian cargo vessel “Sparta IV”
On her way to Kalingrad.
Military cargo or weapons.
December 14, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Reposted by Cecilia Sykala
Aircraft with hex #C88881 (miscode or spoof) operating south of Hainan.

I've found this to be a PLANAF KQ-200/Y-9FQ ASW aircraft, actual hex #7A42B3 & c/s 7412
@ceciliasykala.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 5:18 AM
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CHINESE NEW AG600M amphibious aircraft in the South China Sea. A firefighting variant.
Codenamed Kunlong, or "water dragon"
Hex: 782036
Reg: В-ОНЕН
Firefighting, Rescue, hopefully not water bombing
December 10, 2024 at 4:58 AM
Another HUGE #EARTHQUAKE magnitude 6.5 ALASKA
30 min ago, following on from the mag 6.1 at Kuril Islands. The ring of fire is like a roulette wheel, the earthquakes spin around.
December 8, 2024 at 10:00 PM
HUGE EARTHQUAKE magnitude 6.1 Kuril Islands occurring close to an X Class Solar Flare 10.30 UTC
December 8, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Russian cargo vessel “Sparta IV”
[MMSI: 273413440 IMO: 9743033]
just left port after 44 days, part of the Dark Fleet- Ghost ships, transporting weapons. Previously been to Tartus.

Heading to Baltiysk, Kalingrad, Russia. Weapons?
December 7, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Reposted by Cecilia Sykala
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EU’s transhipment bans in force March 2025.

Kildin anchorage may see over 55 reloadings this coming year as Moscow intends to transfer a significant volume via ship-to-ship transfers. 20 transfers occur currently mostly in winter at Yamal LNG.

www.marineinsight.com/shipping-new...
Russia Begins Ship-To-Ship LNG Transfers Ahead of European Union’s Ban on Transhipments
Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.
www.marineinsight.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:14 AM
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Chinese ‘new‘ ship, Wen Cheng 174,000-cbm liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, who was involved in ship-to-ship LNG recently , off the Kildin Island near Murmansk, still heading south towards South Africa, then to the North Atlantic!!
December 7, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Chinese Research/Survey/Tracking /Surveillance vessel Yuan Wang 5 has TURNED. AROUND!! Using a different name, but when you click for more details it’s Yuan Wang 5. Yesterday it was further towards Wuhan, than previous post.
December 7, 2024 at 2:10 AM
Reposted by Cecilia Sykala
Mayan canals used for fish harvesting. Agriculture is often credited for the rise of civilization and there's no doubt it's influence. However, harvesting aquatic resources could have the same sort of impact especially when you're modifying the landscape to do it at large scale.
Late Archaic large-scale fisheries in the wetlands of the pre-Columbian Maya Lowlands
Wetlands in the Maya Lowlands reveal the earliest large-scale Archaic fish-trapping facility recorded in Central America.
www.science.org
December 5, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Reposted by Cecilia Sykala
#earthquake M 7.0 - 63 km WNW of Petrolia, CA. Depth 0.6 km
Not seen one here for a very long time.
This is a very big shake and very shallow.
Did not feel it, but my #seismograph got a very clean signal. Very unusual shape to the heliograph.
December 5, 2024 at 6:59 PM
2 Large EARTHQUAKES in IRAN magnitude 5.6 & 5.

Both shallow 5.5 & 10km, more damaging .

1 near BUSHEHR NUCLEAR FACILITY
December 5, 2024 at 9:48 PM