The invention discloses a surface drilling pre-splitting blasting shallow burying method for a room type goaf roof and belongs to a roof disaster preventing and controlling method for mining of a short distance coal bed below a shallowly-buried goaf. During long wall mining of the short distance coal bed below the shallowly-buried room type goaf, main roof large-area pressure coming happens easily, the yielding damage happens to a small-size coal column under the fracture load of a main roof, a large-size coal column has an elastic kernel and acts the concentrated stress on a lower coal bed work face hydraulic support, and collapse of a work face inner roof, pushing down of a support, hurricane impacting and other disasters are caused. According to the method, drilling pre-splitting blasting of the roof is performed on the ground, the problems that construction is difficult and the effective distance of drilling is short during forced caving of room penetrating type drilling pre-splitting blasting of the goaf are solved, roof large-area pressure coming, roof collapse, pushing down of the support and other disasters can be effectively prevented, and the method is also applicable tomining of lower coal beds of concentrated coal columns of a shallowly-buried long-wall goaf. The method is simple in implementation process, safe and efficient and has wide applicability.