Black Star Update Report January 18, 2018 Seismic event indicators say Earth is moving through the second and final earth-change lull period for the 2017 Earth orbit cycle relative to the Black Star positioned in the Libra Constellation. Year-over-year weekly seismic-event values for Week 48 show the first 7-magnitude earthquake event in the last four years, but we should realize that the 2016 orbit cycle saw a 7-mag quake event for Week 47 and 49. The lonely 6-magnitude earthquake event, reported for the Week 48 reporting period, struck in Burma (USGS); which is the first 6-mag quake to strike in the last four weeks. Thirty of the5-mag quake events for Week 48 hit the yearly average with 221 of the 2.5 to 4-mag quake events being just a bit above the yearly average for the last four years. Week-over-week seismic-event values show a bounce in global earthquake activity across the board except for the 2.5 to 4-magnitude quake events that has dropped for the last two weeks from the 240