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

News are coming in from all of Moscow of a nauseating Hydrogen Sulfide smell. Possible spillage from the Moscow Oil Processing Plant in Kapotnya District. Experts are looking for the cause of this pillage and smell.

Wonderful and useless advice to "Open Windows Wide to air out your room." heard on the radio right now. I'd say tape the windows and airways shut and turn on the car air-re-circulation for those caught in the evening traffic jams.

Another update coming in just now is that the gas spillage comes from the Ljublino District. Information keeps getting updated rapidly. The winds are Southerly today, and this huge pollution cloud will probably spread itself over my town pretty soon.

Here is the only news item I could find of this. [link to www.m24.ru] The Experts are still uncertain where exactly this spillage came from. I remind you that Hydrogen Sulfide is a Class 4 Health Hazard with even short exposures being deadly.

Update. The concentrations of Styrene and Formaldehyde have been double, or five times the safe values from early night tonight in several of Moscow's regions. Not very healthy either. What are your thoughts abut this whole situation?

The EMERCOM of Russia is currently telling Moscow's populace that "it is not dangerous. Please be calm." When such an event has not been heard of here in Moscow for at least ten years. Darn Government Officials.

This horrible smell has now wafted over our town as I predicted. This unmistakable smell of rotten eggs is spreading wider still. Might be this high pressure ridge enchanting the Iceland's Volcano SO2 releases perhaps? Still a mystery to where the source comes from!


Thanks to Dangerwalt for finding this video of the event. Notice how 10-14 story apartment buildings were all covered in this dense and dangerous fog.

Get some ozone generators. Ozone reacts away H2S, turns it into SO2 (also not good) and H2O. Then the SO2 reacts with ozone and forms SO3, which will be a white fibrous flaky solid. Don't eat that.

The only gas masks that work are those connected to a known-good air supply, like an air tank. In other words, a full-body hazmat suit. The mask the guy is wearing in the picture - that's useless against H2S.

The H2S will accumulate in basements and other low-lying areas now and concentrate. There may be some more fires, or explosions. It will adsorb onto materials and you can be poisoned by skin contact. Don't touch anything you don't have to, especially outdoors. Best bet, stay indoors, seal up good, sit by an ozone generator.

I am not quite sure I am buying it either. Even with the large cloud moving by the wind, it did cover all of Moscow at once! Look at the map please, measure the area of Moscow City. It is absolutely huge! Population 20 Million! Of them around five to seven are illegals, 'grey' persons not listed anywhere.

They might as well perish, without anyone noticing sadly :( That is not including all the wonderful and marvelously diverse flora+fauna populating our city. Of the ones worthy of our sympathies are moose (meese?) in Moscow's largest forest as well as beautiful swans and geese in the thousands of small ponds and lakes in the city.



Please keep in mind that was just smoke from peat bog fires. Not pleasant at all, as it led to around one hundred more deaths due to particle exposure and lung+heart diseases. This smog is not smoke, as it's Hydrogen Sulfide, Styrene as well as Formaldehyde!

Thank you to everyone who cares about our well-being! Those warm thoughts are really appreciated! As I don't have the Freedom to leave this place I would be of much more use to keep updating, even with my headache and slight nausea. The exposure values aren't that high here I hope. Hopefully it will pass overnight.

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)]

Doh! This sulfur must be getting to my brain! Why didn't I think of looking up the satellite date for Sulphur in our atmosphere ASAP! Thank you very much for catching this relevant information! I will dig into it and see if it might give us some answers.

Satellites are sure showing a large blob of SO2 yes. They can't show where it originated from though. If this was Miss Barda, all of West Russia, including St. Petersburg would be reporting this spillage. So far it has gone past Zelenograd heading North - NNW. Other places are not reporting this smell.

Air pressure (GEFS)

[link to www.meteociel.fr]

could be because the high pressure centre is smack over Moscow, and the fumes are being funnelled down the centre?

pressure maps would tell us. anyone know of weather pressure maps for Moscow/Russia?

Air pressure (GEFS)

[link to www.meteociel.fr]

You are correct sir, there is a high pressure ridge currently over Moscow. [link to www.picshare.ru] It compounds the huge Sulfur incident we had today. By some reports the whole "leak" thing started in the night. Let's see how this night will affect our situation.

Resistance of electrical insulators in their power systems will be degraded.

Doh! This sulfur must be getting to my brain! Why didn't I think of looking up the satellite date for Sulfur in our atmosphere ASAP! Thank you very much for catching this relevant information! I will dig into it and see if it might give us some answers.

Satellites are sure showing a large blob of SO2 yes. They can't show where it originated from though. If this was Miss Barda, all of West Russia, including St. Petersburg would be reporting this "spillage". So far it has gone past Zelenograd heading North - NNW. Other places are not reporting this smell.

Get out of moscow now, why are you taking chance?

[link to www.themoscowtimes.com] More at linky.. well under 50%

Russian emergency services on Monday warned Muscovites to stay indoors and seal off access to fresh air amid reports of toxic chemical fumes permeating the city.

Air in southwestern Moscow contained 2.5 times the maximum permissible levels of styrene, a toxic and mutagenic chemical used for polymer production, according to city-run environmental monitoring watchdog Mosekomonitoring.

A strong smell of hydrogen sulfide was also reported citywide, including at The Moscow Times headquarters at Marina Roshcha. The substance has an aroma reminiscent of rotting eggs.

"Head hurts, feel sick, eyes watering," Natalia Kim, a resident of the styrene-hit Kozhukhovo district, wrote on Facebook.

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.

as per MM on the Barda thread

open this and set to today, November 10..

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

then open this gif, of that link screen capped, overlaid with a map showing Moscow..

[link to cdn.makeagif.com]

put the cursor on Moscow as it blinks back and fore

notice anything?