In the Wenchuan earthquake, steep dip bedding slope is a kind of slope that seismic mountain disaster very development and the slope earthquake disaster is often exacerbated by the excavation. In order to reproduce the process and analysis regularity of slope deformation and failure under the action of seismic load. The author chooses San Shuping landslide located Pingwu County as the typical examples of steep dip excavation damage bedding slope, and the indoor physical model test of slope deformation and failure under the action of seismic load are carried out. The results show that slope deformation and failure is intensified by the excavation. Collapse and sliding is the main form of failure and the results consistent with the field investigation. From the whole process of deformation and failure of view, it can be divided into the four stages. First, the initial phase of the earthquake. A wedge rock by excavation small slides along the rock layers and the slope toe stress increase sharply under the action of seismic load in this stage. Second, rock layers by excavation break-bend at slope toe. Third, the rock layers by excavation overall decline stage. Last, the rock slide blocked and dumping.