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

Hello! As you know I have been working with Luis on the Iceland Volcano thread for the past two months and wanted to share this info with you as it might help. The owners of the Refinery in Moscow have denied any leak, so I looked at the NASA So2 website and found out that there is a large amount of So2 directly over the Moscow area. I monitor this site daily as the Iceland rift fissure is emitting an average of 35 thousand tons of So2 per day into the troposphere. Here is the link and if you change the date at the bottom of the page to 11-10-2014, you will see the large red marking directly over Moscow.

Here is the NASA link:

[link to earthdata.nasa.gov (secure)]

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

Yeah, a minor power outage here. Probably the nearby construction site bothering the 6KV cables again. Took the off time to go and check up on my kitties. They seem very sleepy, as does my sick relative.

Is drowsiness part of stress, or Sulfur poisoning I wonder? Perhaps I am imagining things, I would think they would sound the alarms if it was really serious by now.

Meanwhile our news "City FM" reported that "RosHydroMet", our MetOffice had stated that this sulfur smell will linger above Moscow until the end of Tuesday. News are coming in that our consumer protection ministry / agency has started a civil case from the fact of this "spillage". Poor Muscovites, we could really use your warm thoughts now.



The sulfides concentration is ten times above nominal "safe" values now. First it was nothing, then they said "minor values above normal", then "twice the normal amounts" and now the Sulfur values are ten times larger! Along with the carcino-/muta-genic Styrene and Formaldehyde. Something must have gone really FUBAR for those to be detected I think.

This "City FM" had a journalist smelling the air outside the Refinery. When they really should save the scrubber logs now, to prevent tampering. Keep in mind that the gas plume from the Refinery pipes will fall down away from the spillage site itself.

Has anyone noticed how much we have over the North Sea UK?

Another thing that might help: crank up your heat. Hot air expands, so that'll help keep positive air pressure inside, so outdoor air won't get in as easily.

OP, for the love of God, you are DYING!
Get out of the area and keep driving for another 100 miles or more.
You have no idea what caused this, you assume it will get better.
That is a recipe for disaster.
Your cats will be dead tonight.
You may or may not make it to morning, assuming it doesn't get worse.
If a big wave comes you may die in minutes.
Do not listen to public radio or government bullshit artists.
They do not want panic. They will lie to the end. They will keep lying from remote radio stations until the last moscovite is laying dead in their tiny apartment.
Intelligent and experienced people with hazmat training are begging you to leave. You must make your own choices here. If you don't own a car then get on a train. Get going....

OP, for the love of God, you are DYING!
Get out of the area and keep driving for another 100 miles or more.
You have no idea what caused this, you assume it will get better.
That is a recipe for disaster.
Your cats will be dead tonight.
You may or may not make it to morning, assuming it doesn't get worse.
If a big wave comes you may die in minutes.
Do not listen to public radio or government bullshit artists.
They do not want panic. They will lie to the end. They will keep lying from remote radio stations until the last moscovite is laying dead in their tiny apartment.
Intelligent and experienced people with hazmat training are begging you to leave. You must make your own choices here. If you don't own a car then get on a train. Get going....

Another thing that might help: crank up your heat. Hot air expands, so that'll help keep positive air pressure inside, so outdoor air won't get in as easily.

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.

I found this real time chart of the air pollution measuring stations in Moscow. The symbols are clickable. [link to www.mosecom.ru] Most stations show an empty SO2 bar. So the data seems a little bit corrupted, I've seen one of those stations. It was a tall metal mast with sensors up and down its length near a busy highway. Perhaps they will tell someone something? I've clicked on a few random ones and the plots show 0.7-1.5 times the normal amount of pollution.

Can you smell it OP?

If so, are you packing?

yeah but when the whole atmosphere is poison, all you're doing is using up the good air inside, which will be slowly replaced by the bad air outside

i'm wondering about fans with bicarbonate of soda and water soaked towels draped behind them?(or is it in front of them?) don't they do that in Hawaii when the vog gets bad?

NO NO NO
None of this crap will help you.

You must evacuate.

Incorrect information will get people killed.

No gadgetry or masks or high room temp or ozone generators or fans or putting a dollar under the pillow for the tooth fairy will save you.

You must evacuate or die.

A low concentration over a long time of say 12 hours can KILL !
A big concentration will make you dead before you hit the ground.

You have no idea what the parts per million is. You don't even know what the damn chemical or gas is. You don't know how "sour" anything is.
You have absolutely zero information and you are making life or death decisions. Always error on the side of caution. I will be the GLP Safety Officer here. I am hereby ordering OP to evacuate.

OP, for the love of God, you are DYING!
Get out of the area and keep driving for another 100 miles or more.
You have no idea what caused this, you assume it will get better.
That is a recipe for disaster.
Your cats will be dead tonight.
You may or may not make it to morning, assuming it doesn't get worse.
If a big wave comes you may die in minutes.
Do not listen to public radio or government bullshit artists.
They do not want panic. They will lie to the end. They will keep lying from remote radio stations until the last moscovite is laying dead in their tiny apartment.
Intelligent and experienced people with hazmat training are begging you to leave. You must make your own choices here. If you don't own a car then get on a train. Get going....

You assume it will get worse.

Middle-aged cat lady?! Sir! I am offended! I am a cat-man in my prime! :D :5a:

The situation, both financial as well as in terms of transport here is quite lousy indeed. This is my choice though, to stay and help with reports! Though never faced with such a situation before I need to say we can't fear death all of our lives. At least I think I am doing something positive for you guys now. Yeah, sorry for the rant guys, I love you all!

Middle-aged cat lady?! Sir! I am offended! I am a cat-man in my prime! :D :5a:

The situation, both financial as well as in terms of transport here is quite lousy indeed. This is my choice though, to stay and help with reports! Though never faced with such a situation before I need to say we can't fear death all of our lives. At least I think I am doing something positive for you guys now. Yeah, sorry for the rant guys, I love you all!

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.

Ladies and Gentlemen, if this is Barda running won't save us. If this is a single release then it will blow over until tomorrow. Either way it's a pleasure of spending time informing you, instead of turning tail. I will be alright, I know it.

The mobile station in Khovrino, North in Moscow is showing a doubling of some pollutant. Quite a noticeable spike. But again, only for 1300 MSK time. [link to www.mosecom.ru]

Darn! MADI is showing a tripling of either NO2, or SO2, hard to tell on the small color helper.

[link to www.picshare.ru]

Probably industrial. Russia mostly had an improving safety and pollution controls that were going to match Europe (Since Europe was assisting a lot on that front).

Now with all these sanctions on Russia, safety critical devices can't be sold to Russia because it's high technology, and can't be sold to Russia. Now you're paying the consequences for this idiotic game our wonderful governments are playing with the cost of your lives.

Most likely some plant tried some mickey mouse solution because they couldn't get any replacement parts and there you go.