Crowds can suddenly turn deadly. New research has clues that could prevent disaster.

Watching a concert or a sports event alongside thousands of other people can be both exhilarating and dangerous, and ...
Manila Standard

‘Unique crowd culture’: How does Traslacion prevent stampedes?

Despite the extreme crowd density and intense pushing seen during the annual Traslación procession of the Black Nazarene icon ...
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Packed Festival Crowds Actually Form Living Vortices — And You Can Predict Them with Physics

Every year, on July 6, thousands of people gather in the Plaza Consistorial in Pamplona, Spain, for the opening ceremony of the San Fermín festival. Dressed in white, they dance, sing, and celebrate, ...
The New York Times

The Physics That Keeps a Crowd From Becoming a Stampede

A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, believe there’s a way to predict the motions of a large crowd. By Ari Daniel Every July, at the opening ceremony of the San ...
Rappler

Managing crowds at Jesus Nazareno’s Traslacion

In ordinary mass gatherings, the combination of extreme density and sudden movement would almost certainly result in a stampede or crowd crush. But why does a large-scale stampede not usually occur ...
Ars Technica

Topic: crowd dynamics

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