Abstract: In order to understand the development status of earthquake popular science books in China, this study investigated and studied the earthquake popular science books officially published from 1949 to 2022 from seven aspects: the publication time, publication institution and publication place, overseas introduction, distribution form, author group, reader group and book content. The results show that the number of earthquake popular science books is on the rise in general. There is an imbalance between the region and the number of publications of the publishing institutions. The publishing form is mainly single edition. The earthquake departments and earthquake workers are the main creative groups. The readers are mostly children and teenagers. The content of the books is mainly earthquake knowledge. Based on this, the author puts forward some suggestions on the development of earthquake popular science books in the future, including expanding the team of earthquake popular science creators, refining the audience, broadening the topic selection ideas, and innovating the form of works, so as to constantly adapt to the social development and public cognition needs.