Evidences from field and full scale laboratory tests suggest that the soil nail walls perform remarkably well under seismic conditions. In this study an attempt has been made to study the performance of a soil nail wall supporting a vertical cut of 8 m height under seismic conditions. Soil nailed wall is designed conventionally using allowable stress design procedure. The conventionally designed soil nail wall is then simulated numerically using a finite element analysis. Seismic data from Bhuj and Uttarkashi earthquakes are used for the pseudo-static and the dynamic analyses. To assess the performance of soil nail wall, parameters such as maximum lateral displacements, development of nail forces, important failure modes of soil nail walls have been studied under both static and seismic conditions. Results of numerical analyses indicate that the use of soil nail wall technique is desirable to impart stability to the retaining systems under seismic conditions.