The invention relates to a sub-seismic fault quantitative prediction method, which comprises the steps of constructing and drawing a balance section, analyzing the deformation periods of faults, analyzing the deformation mechanisms of the faults, determining the fault evolution law, dividing a fault system, establishing a fault fractal growth model, establishing a power law relationship between the fault length and the cumulative frequency, establishing the relationship between the fault length and the maximal fault displacement, predicting the extending lengths of sub-seismic faults, the maximal fault displacements of the sub-seismic faults and the number of the sub-seismic faults, finely explaining the faults and the stratum, calculating the fault displacements of each fault plane, establishing a three-dimensional geologic model, establishing a three-dimensional mechanical model, establishing a grid layout between the fracture orientation and the fracture density, and determining the development positions and the development orientations of the sub-seismic faults based on stochastic simulation techniques with the extending lengths of sub-seismic faults, the maximal fault displacements of the sub-seismic faults, the number of the sub-seismic faults, the fracture orientation and the density grid determined on the basis of the three-dimensional geomechanical simulation as constraint conditions. According to the technical scheme of the invention, the sub-seismic faults can be quantitatively predicted and the prediction accuracy is high.