Shallow faults exploration is a part of field work of seismic safety assessment of engineering site, and the main purpose is to find out the spatially distributing feature and the latest active age of faults near the surface and to provide the basis of seismic risk evaluation, engineering preventing collision and taking anti-rapture measures. Commonly used methods of shallow faults exploration concludes shallow seismic reflection wave method, shallow seismic refraction wave method, ground penetrating radar method, high-density electrical method, geochemical method, etc. Combined with the principles, characteristics of each exploration were analyzed in this article, concluding application medium conditions, investigation depth, detecting resolution, etc. According to the characteristics of each exploration method, the optimizing method and combination scheme of shallow faults exploration in different site-types were given,and achieved good application effect in practical work.