According to CCTV News, a large-scale stampede occurred in Itaewon, Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea on the evening of October 29th local time. According to the latest news from the South Korean fire department on the 30th, the stampede has killed 151 people and injured 82 people.
It is reported that a Chinese man is known to have died in the accident. The incident of
made many people afraid and saw the serious consequences of the stampede accident. So how can we survive a stampede accident?
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"Don't just follow the people next to you." Physics professor Caesar Saroma, a professor of physics at the University of Philippines, said that he has specialized in how mice escape from confined spaces. In some ways, mice can also have stampedes like humans: individuals will blindly follow others, block the exit and ignore other things.
No matter how crowded the place you go to, you must draw a map in your heart. "Find out where all the exits are," Saroma said.
He has studied how to escape when a little mouse falls into the pool. "In some ways, rats will panic like humans: individuals blindly follow each other, blocking some exits and ignoring others," Saroma said. "
"Make a psychological map for any crowded places you enter." Saroma said that in the rat escape experiment, at first, the mice tended to flock, but then they found all available routes and left at seven times the rate. People should spend a few minutes imagining an emergency evacuation during a gathering event like a concert or baseball game. "Think step by step, what would you do if an accident happens?" Saroma said.
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Research shows that in the case of 7 people or more per square meter, people can generate powerful waves of more than 1,000 pounds of force like fluid. Many trampling deaths are not caused by trampling, but by oppressive asphyxiation, in which people are squeezed straight or die in piles. At the same time, he particularly emphasized that be careful of bottleneck areas like emergency exits. The multi-directional push of crowded flow will cause the body to be squeezed tightly and no one can move.
Human stampede occurs most often in sports activities and large gathering places. Nevertheless, the group has the ability to perform what scientists call self-organization, in which leadership-less order spontaneously emerges like a school of fish, Saroma said.
researchers cannot experiment with real human stomping, so it is difficult to know what kind of improvisational coordination will occur in a crowded crowd. Saroma saw in the mouse experiment that experienced animals would line up instead of scrambling to escape. He said: "We have never seen a mouse move out of the other mouse like a gentleman, but they are indeed doing orderly collective work."
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