Earthquakes are the most effective natural disasters affecting buildings and construction foundations. Geotechnical engineers and researchers try numerically to analyze and estimate the effects of earthquakes and to predict the settlement and bearing capacities for shallow foundations constructed on saturated and dry sandy soils. The earthquakes loading increase the pore water pressure in saturated sandy soils. The excessive pore water pressure in sandy soils leads to liquefaction which reduces bearing capacity and increases the amount of settlement with severe damage to foundations and buildings. This study may participate to reveal the effect of several factors and parameters on the soil and shallow foundations response to the seismic loading which thought to be never reviewed before. This paper intends to contribute the review numerical analysis studies to predict the influence of earthquakes on the sand. The use of a variety of developed software in numerical analysis became an interest for geotechnical engineers and researchers. The study attempted to include the most recent analytical studies especially those dependent on experimental works with a variety of topics and effective parameters.