Nauseating Hydrogen Sulfide Spillage Reported All Over Moscow, Russia! Video Inside!

Moscow must be a shithole anyway, so I'd be surprised if they can smell the leak over the usual stink of the city.

I work in the oil sands and carry a personal H2S below my chin all day at work. If you can smell the Hydrogen Sulphide that's a good thing. It's when you can't smell it anymore is when it's bad!

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Thank you for the reply. Do you actually carry that gas as an indicator with you? Or was it a gas detector? I am very worried about the air quality of our city, especially since I can't remember last time we had such a scent here. So many ill and old people in town who I am very worried about right now.

They are now recommending filtrating masks, or a wet cloth if one is to leave their home. Shelter in home declared in all of Moscow. At least until tomorrow, the high pressure ridge will get stronger at night. We might get some rain tomorrow, that will remove the bad pollution from our air.

Update. Now Zelenograd is reporting this sulphury smell. To the point of discomfort in the pulmonary system. Still a mystery what could have "farted" so loudly. This is a very good event from one point though. All the 20+ million people in Moscow noticed and got their heads up from tablets and phones. Kind of a unifying experience.

Last Edited by Snuffielover on 11/10/2014 10:00 AM

H2S is mega bad stuff. It's highly soluble in water, so if you wet a t-shirt and breath through it most of it will be removed.

If you use slightly soapy water it will raise the pH a bit and make it more effective.

Be careful, H2S has a strong odor initially, but it quickly deadens your sense of smell so you may think that it's gone but it's not.

Also, it is heavier than air, so it collects in low lying areas. Avoid basements and subways. If it gets really bad heading to the top floor of a building may get you away from it.

:shoker:

hydrogen sulfide is deadly do not air youtr house with h2s.

It's not a detector. It's a mask. Your nose is the detector.

You are right. Seal every opening you can and remain indoors.

God be with you Snuffy!

It wasn't me

Mystery fog, 'toxic' sulfur odor covers Moscow (VIDEO)

[link to rt.com]

Is this confirmed as an industrial spill, or are there volcanoes nearby that you should be concerned about?

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There are no volcanoes, which I am aware about around Moscow. The video above illustrates how smoggy that "release" was. To cover such a large area, I'd say the release was substantial.

The main suspects are the Moscow Oil Refinery as well as the sewage aeration plant. About four thousand six hundred square kilometers(1892sq. miles) of urban + suburban land was covered judging by the huge response from the people reporting it from Zelenograd to Podolsk.

According to this article [link to www.m24.ru] our EMERCOM services blame the Moscow Refinery, while the Refinery reports of "No noticeable Malfunctions". Please keep in mind our Government has lousy communication. I bet this surfaced after many people reported of an emergency gas dump at the plant. Which is rather hard to overlook if you ask me.

Events such as this are usually hushed, if they haven't taken lives directly. I have no doubt the mortality rate will spike greatly after this spillage. As it did when we had the peatbog fires covering the area with smoke in 2010. Luckily the smell has subsided here, but I am getting a very annoying headache.

What annoys me the most is the darn expert reply. Most of them gave contradicting advice. Such as open all windows and walk outside (into the cloud of deadly gas). That was the information for those first three hours, until I called the Moscow radio station and told them that windows should be barred up and cars should recycle their air in traffic jams.

After that tons of people started to do that by the following people who called in from jams, reporting how the smell got into their cars even with ventilation shut off / recycling. The (my) word "recycling" was heard like a thousand times in the hours after I called.

In the event of a large, deliberate gas attack Moscow is DooMed! And it will spread all over the region, with millions of casualties. At least by the current weak response I noticed today.

Last Edited by Snuffielover on 11/10/2014 11:19 AM

nailed it!

this is EXACTLY what happened to the UK when Laki erupted 230 years ago

high pressure directly over - check

'nearby' volcano releasing large amounts of S02 - check

tens of thousands of deaths - tbc?

Stay safe OP.


Pined for updates.

that link above, Google Translated..

In many parts of the capital in the morning there is a bad smell, like hydrogen sulfide. This is reported by readers M24.ru.

"In the center of Moscow Taganka very strong smell of gas. Mosgaz called in. They said that on this occasion calls received many causes of smell, they do not know," - says Natalia reader.

"Many residents of Moscow, especially the south and south-east, concerned with the question: what is that smell of gas or something like standing in the morning in the air? Nowhere have no information. I am from Biryuleva-East, barely survived in the morning (I'm allergic, asthmatic ). In the afternoon the same smell is felt in the area of "Paveletskaya". Please check what's happening, tell us the news, "- said Larissa.

"In the south and southwest felt a strong smell. Whether ammonia, or sewer ...", - said Andrey.

"Taganka district near the metro station" Proletarian "and" Peasant Zastava "reeks of gas still in the early morning," - said Olga.

In addition, there is a bad smell in the metro area "Novokuznetsk", 5th Street Yamskogo Fields, 1st Tverskaya street.

In the metropolitan emergency department M24.ru reported that the agency establishes the causes of bad breath. In complex urban M24.ru reported that the smell is not associated with the work of the housing and communal services of the city.

As reported by "Interfax" a source in the emergency services of the city, on the Moscow Oil Refinery was directed monitoring group. "Seeing verification process cycle and the state of the filters. However, it is to identify any accidents, as well as the source of the smell, it was not possible," - said the source.

[link to englishrussia.com]

that's Kamchatka, EAST of Moscow

the Icelandic one is WEST of Moscow, upwind of Moscow

the weather goes from west to east.

It's Bardabunga

Read it again.Read the second article .Moscow SITS ON AN ANCIENT VOLCANO!

Thank you! I do hope some heads will roll for exposing our capital for such a thing. Won't get my hopes up too high though. This system is highly corrupt. Usually they find a lower-ranking scapegoat to blame everything on. Another issue is all this secrecy as well as misinformation given.

Any good advice besides wet rags to help neutralize Hydrogen Sulfide with the harmful effects it has on our bodies would be greatly appreciated! We do live in a dip, so I would guess there will be a higher concentration of this poison here. Just look at that video though, it was shot from a high-rise apartment building and you can see this deadly fog go up what, ten floors?!

It may be written off as a viral cold as they usually do here, but I am telling you this release will surely have a very adverse effect on the health of our general populace. The only thing that could warm my heart in such a situation is that Mid to High-Level functionaries will be sure to note this gas as well. I doubt they sought shelter in bunkers today.

Mister Putin is abroad in China right now, but I do hope his Environment Minister got a good dose of H2S! Maybe it will help him reconsider having Misc. factories as well as refineries within Moscow's borders! I don't want my city to turn into another Beijing! By the way even in Beijing for the international summit they shut down all the factories and car traffic to get a semblance of clear, blue skies!

Another prospect I worry about is the sour, acid rains that will surely follow. Stripping our forests for plant life as well as poisoning our water / fishing reservoirs. We have wonderful ducks in a small lake nearby, I'd hate to see them go. I am usually not this "green", but it's hard to stay neutral when you know all of this will have a hugely compounded negative effect down the line.

Sulfuric Acid ruins your water, plants, hair, as well as any clothes people have hanging outside. My tomatoes are in, figuratively. They were harvested in early September. A couple of 200mg Ibuprofen pills for my headache, and I should be good to go to keep on top of this.

Last Edited by Snuffielover on 11/10/2014 11:50 AM

Yikes!

I think the best advice is to gtfo NOW!

Take what you need for a week maybe two and go.


Edit: you should probably leave for good.

Last Edited by Mr. NorM on 11/10/2014 11:52 AM

Sounds fishy , holy carp!

Hydrogen sulfide levels have been exceeded by six to ten times. Reporters telling of people not buying up every protection device possible in the pharmacies. Which I find strange personally. I have a mask, or ten nearby and our neighbor has a lot of filtering gas masks from the Soviet times I hope are still functional.

The radio hosts are saying that little have changed since the Ukrainian SSR First Of May demonstration in Pripyat. The same dumb silence from officials, responsible for such things. Radio hosts mention the fear of responsibility that officials have now. Nobody wishes to get on air and tell people of an extreme situation.

The previously unknown "Moscow Volcanic Caldera" is soon to be discovered.

Putin farted. Everything he does is just more powerful.