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pjbasis posted...

What causes something like this from the individual perspective? people on the edges just pushing in for no reason?

When enough people are crowded into a space the crowd starts to basically obey fluid physics, where a push at the back of the crowd pushes literally everybody else forward. What happens when there is no more room forward for people to be pushed? Either people become so compressed that they cant breathe and suffocate on their feet, or someone eventually falls, creating a chain reaction of falls and burying people under so many bodies that they cant breathe. The scary part about it is that people in the back of the crowd trying to move forward have basically no way of knowing what theyre causing further ahead in the crowd, and by the time you realize its starting to happen around you, its basically too late to get out.