The Enforcement Rules of Disaster Prevention and Protection Act Article 2
Disasters other than Fire Disaster referred in Item 2, Subparagraph 1, Article 2 of the Act are defined as follows:1. Explosion Disaster: refers to any disaster resulted from drastic production of pressure that release to its environment where lower pressure presents, or any compaction against the ambient air or friction against wall of a container by a drastically expanding gas.2. Public Gas or Fuel Pipeline Disaster: refers to hazards to the safety or pollution to the environment resulted from any accident to the pipeline operated by natural gas or petrol industry.3. Power Transmission Line Disaster: refers to the disaster resulted from failure of normal power transmission and supply due to damaged transmission line or equipment.4. Mine Disaster: refers to the disaster such as rock fall, buried, landslide, carbon monoxide intoxication or suffocation, gas or coal dust explosion, gas strike, petroleum or natural gas leakage, shaft eruption, transport accident, mechanical and electrical accident, explosive accident, flood, fire, and so on, that cause damage to personnel's life and property within underground mine, quarry, petroleum natural gas mine (including marine exploration and production work), and abandoned mine pit or waste rock field that still sustaining valid mining license.5. Air Disaster: refers to loss of life, injury, missing personnel or property loss, or damaged or missing aircraft due to accident taking place in the operation of aircraft.6. Sea Disaster: refers to failure, sinking, grounding, collision, fire, explosion of a sea vessel, or any other unusual accident to a sea vessel, cargo, crew or passenger.7. Land Traffic Accident Disaster: refers to accident to railway, highway or mass rapid transit system, or traffic safety being compromised or traffic being interrupted due to facilities damaged as a result of natural or human factor.8. Forest-fire Disaster: refers to fire disaster occurs within national, public, or private forest land, causing damage to the woods or interfering structure and formation of the forest ecosystem and the land operator.9. Toxic and Concerned Chemical Substances Disaster: refers to public safety hazard or environmental pollution due to accident of toxic and concerned chemical substances.10. Biological Disaster: refers to epidemic outbreak of infectious diseases, which not only causes severe damage to the national security, social economy and people’s health, but also creates burdens to regional medical resources.11. Animal and Plant Disease: refers to disasters caused by the happening or spread of animal infectious disease or plant disease or pest.12. Radiation Disaster: refers to a radiation accident caused by radiation source, radiation operation, or other natural or human factors, resulting in safety hazard to put personnel in radiation exposure or environmental pollution.13. Industrial Pipeline Disaster: refers to safety hazard or environmental pollution (other than those as described in Subparagraph 2) caused by dangerous objects as described in the Regulations Governing the Declaration of Plant Dangerous Objects delivered through third-party underground industrial pipelines outside the parks established or managed according to relevant regulations, and between the sending plant and receiving plant.14. Suspended Particulate Disaster: refers to air quality has reached the Class 1 serious deterioration or cause serious harm to people's health due to the accidental or meteorological conditions that cause the production of large amounts of suspended particulates or the increase of atmospheric concentration.
中文原文 災害防救法施行細則第2條
本法第二條第一款第二目所定火災以外之各類災害，其定義如下：
一、爆炸：指壓力急速產生，並釋放至周圍壓力較低之環境，或因氣體急速膨脹，擠壓周圍之空氣或與容器壁摩擦，造成災害者。
二、公用氣體與油料管線災害：指天然氣事業或石油業之管線，因事故發生，造成安全危害或環境污染者。
三、輸電線路災害：指輸電之線路或設備受損，無法正常供輸電力，造成災害者。
四、礦災：指地下礦場、露天礦場、石油天然氣礦場（含海上探勘、生產作業）等各類礦場及礦業權持續中之廢棄礦坑或捨石場，發生落磐、埋沒、土石崩塌、一氧化碳中毒或窒息、瓦斯或煤塵爆炸、氣體突出、石油或天然氣洩漏、噴井、搬運事故、機電事故、炸藥事故、水災、火災等，造成人員生命及財產損害者。
五、空難：指航空器運作中所發生之事故，造成人員傷亡、失蹤或財物損失，或航空器遭受損害或失蹤者。
六、海難：指船舶發生故障、沉沒、擱淺、碰撞、失火、爆炸或其他有關船舶、貨載、船員或旅客之非常事故者。
七、陸上交通事故：指鐵路、公路及大眾捷運等運輸系統，發生行車事故，或因天然、人為等因素，造成設施損害，致影響行車安全或導致交通陷於停頓者。
八、森林火災：指火災發生於國有、公有或私有林地，造成林木損害或影響森林生態系組成及運作者。
九、毒性及關注化學物質災害：指因毒性及關注化學物質事故，造成安全危害或環境污染者。
十、生物病原災害：指傳染病發生流行疫情，且對國家安全、社會經濟、人民健康造成重大危害，對區域醫療資源產生嚴重負荷者。
十一、動植物疫災：指因動物傳染病或植物疫病蟲害之發生、蔓延，造成災害者。
十二、輻射災害：指因輻射源或輻射作業過程中，或因天然、人為等因素，產生輻射意外事故，造成人員輻射曝露之安全危害或環境污染者。
十三、工業管線災害：指輸出端廠場與接收端廠場間，於相關法令設立、管理之園區範圍外經由第三地地下工業管線輸送工廠危險物品申報辦法之危險物品，因事故發生，造成安全危害或環境污染等第二款以外之災害者。
十四、懸浮微粒物質災害：指因事故或氣象因素使懸浮微粒物質大量產生或大氣濃度升高，空氣品質達一級嚴重惡化或造成人民健康重大危害者。
一、爆炸：指壓力急速產生，並釋放至周圍壓力較低之環境，或因氣體急速膨脹，擠壓周圍之空氣或與容器壁摩擦，造成災害者。
二、公用氣體與油料管線災害：指天然氣事業或石油業之管線，因事故發生，造成安全危害或環境污染者。
三、輸電線路災害：指輸電之線路或設備受損，無法正常供輸電力，造成災害者。
四、礦災：指地下礦場、露天礦場、石油天然氣礦場（含海上探勘、生產作業）等各類礦場及礦業權持續中之廢棄礦坑或捨石場，發生落磐、埋沒、土石崩塌、一氧化碳中毒或窒息、瓦斯或煤塵爆炸、氣體突出、石油或天然氣洩漏、噴井、搬運事故、機電事故、炸藥事故、水災、火災等，造成人員生命及財產損害者。
五、空難：指航空器運作中所發生之事故，造成人員傷亡、失蹤或財物損失，或航空器遭受損害或失蹤者。
六、海難：指船舶發生故障、沉沒、擱淺、碰撞、失火、爆炸或其他有關船舶、貨載、船員或旅客之非常事故者。
七、陸上交通事故：指鐵路、公路及大眾捷運等運輸系統，發生行車事故，或因天然、人為等因素，造成設施損害，致影響行車安全或導致交通陷於停頓者。
八、森林火災：指火災發生於國有、公有或私有林地，造成林木損害或影響森林生態系組成及運作者。
九、毒性及關注化學物質災害：指因毒性及關注化學物質事故，造成安全危害或環境污染者。
十、生物病原災害：指傳染病發生流行疫情，且對國家安全、社會經濟、人民健康造成重大危害，對區域醫療資源產生嚴重負荷者。
十一、動植物疫災：指因動物傳染病或植物疫病蟲害之發生、蔓延，造成災害者。
十二、輻射災害：指因輻射源或輻射作業過程中，或因天然、人為等因素，產生輻射意外事故，造成人員輻射曝露之安全危害或環境污染者。
十三、工業管線災害：指輸出端廠場與接收端廠場間，於相關法令設立、管理之園區範圍外經由第三地地下工業管線輸送工廠危險物品申報辦法之危險物品，因事故發生，造成安全危害或環境污染等第二款以外之災害者。
十四、懸浮微粒物質災害：指因事故或氣象因素使懸浮微粒物質大量產生或大氣濃度升高，空氣品質達一級嚴重惡化或造成人民健康重大危害者。