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... 7 of different hazard events occurring in each state. The hazards that were listed in the bridge engineer's survey included earthquakes, scour, wind, storm surge and waves, landslides, flood and debris flow, liquefaction, blasts, fires, overloads, and collisions.
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... 8 FIGURE 2 (Top) State bridge engineers; (bottom)
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... 9 Hazard Type Highly Likely*
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... 10 consider damage from scour as likely, followed by flood and debris flow (53%) , and collisions at 34%.
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... FIGURE 3 Type of damage detection techniques in percentage used by (top) state bridge engineers; (bottom)
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... 12 FIGURE 4 Perspective of (left) bridge; (right )

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