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Panic is one of the most important emergency indicators. Until now, panic events of any cause tend to be treated in a local manner. Various attempts to detect such events have been proposed based on traditional methods such as visual surveillance technologies and community engagement systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it presents an innovative multimodal dataset containing biometric and spatiotemporal data associated with the detection of panic state in subjects that perform various activities during a certain period. For this purpose, time-enabled location data are combined with biometrics coming from wearables and smartphones that are analyzed in real-time and produce data indicating possible panic events that are geospatially described. Second, the proposed dataset is used to train various machine learning models, and their applicability to correctly distinguish panic states from normal behavior is thoroughly examined. As a result, the Gaussian SVM classifier ranked first among seven classifiers, achieving an accuracy score of 94.5%. The dataset was also tested in a deep learning framework, achieving an accuracy level of 93.4%. A long short-term memory approach was also used, which reached a top accuracy of 94%. Moreover, the contribution of the various biometric and geospatial features is analyzed in-depth to determine their partial importance in the overall panic detection process. This is moving towards the creation of a smart geo-referenced ERS that could be used to inform the authorities regarding a potentially unpleasant event by detecting possible crowd panic patterns and helping to act accordingly, getting the information right from the source of the event, the human body. 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