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

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.

Oh *chuckles* I am sure Moscow has created its own caldera! We started digging under our city a long time ago - about two hundred years. So with, or without a volcano ever since the 70'ies people have joked about Moscow falling into a giant sink hole.

EMERCOM notifies of a Hydrogen Sulfide scrubber failure at the Moscow Oil Refinery. Those allegations are denied by Gazprom, who is the owner of that plant. I am sure the health of hundreds of thousands is less important to them, then their profits of selling oil, gas, and diesel in most of Moscow's car-refilling stops.

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.

So is it a spill? These stories keep saying it is unknown. If it is not a spill, I bet there with be a large earthquake there soon.

Take extreme caution, for you and your loved ones. Like most governments, they will announce something after everyone affected by it already knows.

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

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Incredible video. Thanks for posting it.

Incredible video. Thanks for posting it.

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.

i dont buy the scrubber malfunction

we must be talking millions of cubic metres of atmosphere affected there. almost to saturation point with that mist

that's one hell of a 'malfunction'

One video from August 7, 2010. Moscow in smog from fires around the city.

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.

i dont buy the scrubber malfunction

we must be talking millions of cubic metres of atmosphere affected there. almost to saturation point with that mist

that's one hell of a 'malfunction'

The smell of sulfur, the experts find out who messed up the air in Moscow

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That is old as well as outdated news my Friend. It's still a version though. There are multiple versions still. I bet the Government knows what really went down, but is quite busy in deciding how the blame will be handled. To avoid a people's righteous Wrath, at the same time keeping their buddies in office and as managers of large Corporations and Gvmt. positions.

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.

So is it a spill? These stories keep saying it is unknown. If it is not a spill, I bet there with be a large earthquake there soon.

Finally Lenta.ru wrote a good summarizing article about it [link to lenta.ru] It links to some more images as well as comments. For example a Twitter about a children's marathon still taking place, despite the smell. Poor kids!

I am not sure I have any place to go, as millions of Muscovites. As much as I understand the need to bail out. Such things are more difficult to discuss though. Let us rather focus on the ongoing situation. Even if it does not improve, there is little we could do.