Despite the extreme crowd density and intense pushing seen during the annual Traslación procession of the Black Nazarene icon, large-scale stampedes ...

Watching a concert or a sports event alongside thousands of other people can be both exhilarating and dangerous, and researchers now have new theories about how people behave when they get too close ...

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 ...

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 ...

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