For the very soft sensitive clay deposit, earthquakes can be a major triggering source to cyclic softening and
significant deformation. In this study, 8 centrifuge test results for the cement-treated and untreated clay slopes were analyzed to evaluate the effect of sensitivity (St) and PGA (peak ground acceleration) on the clay slope failure. Analytic approach using instability factor (NI) was taken. From analyses, there is a correlation that NI (the instability factor to cause a slope failure) tends to decrease as sensitivity increases. It indicates that low sensitivity soil can resist a higher demand (higher NI). Also, NI decreases as Arias Intensity increases. It indicates that high sensitivity soil is easier to fail for strong earthquake shaking. Because of varying unit weight and slope height as deformation proceeds, equivalent unit weight (γe) is introduced and NI using γe to cause a failure is in reasonable agreement with 5.5 shown in the Taylor’s chart.