Abstract: It is important to choose a reasonable geophysical method to detect the occurrence of column collapse especially in the aspect of reducing the effects of collapse column in coal mine safety. Currently, a more effective method of probing column collapse is seismic exploration method. Based on the basic principle of seismic forward modeling, combined with the example of three-dimensional seismic exploration of Yangquan Group Kaiyuan Coal Mine, we compare and analyze the seismic response characteristics in the seismic wave field from the theoretical and practical aspects of different internal structures of the collapse columns. So it can provide some theoretical and practical basis to explain collapse column.