Abstract: Taking mining area 2502 in the Yanbei coal mine which was affected by strong geological tectonic stress as an engineering background, the water jet technology is studied through in-site survey, laboratory test, theoretical analysis and field industrial test. The research results are as follows: the burst tendency of No.5 coal seam can be reduced to a certain extent after softening with water. The typical characteristics of rock-burst accidents mainly cause heaving floor and serious deformation of two sides. The occurrence mechanism of rock burst in roadway ribs has two different forms, and they are static load dominant type and dynamic load dominant type. The abutment stress concentration value is higher than a certain concentration static load, it will affect the coal and rock medium in the floor, and the coal and rock medium in the floor occur rock burst. The water jet technology for roadway ribs can effectively prevent rock burst of roadway ribs and floor based on the dynamic and static loads superposition theory and Terzaghi theory. The monitoring result of signal intensity by EMR indicates that the decreasing amplitude of signal intensity of EMR is about 60.2% on the side of coal-pillar rib, and the decreasing amplitude of signal intensity of EMR is about 68.6% on the side of solid-coal rib; the convergences monitoring result indicates that the convergence ratio of roadway height is about 3.2% and the convergence ratio of roadway width is about 2.3% in the pressure relief roadway part; the water jet technology is not only helpful to the prevention of rock burst for the roadway ribs, but also can play a good prevention of rock burst for roadway floor. The research results provide a theoretical foundation and a new guidance for preventing rock burst in roadway ribs and floor with similar engineering geological conditions.