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This thesis is conducted to investigate the effects of December 19, 2010 and Novemberrn24, 2011 earthquakes in Hosanna town. Due to the limitation of the available data onlyrnseven buildings were selected for the investigation. The paper examines the fivernbuildings by qualitative analysis and two of buildings, both qualitative and quantitativernstudies.rnThe qualitative method was based on the damage evaluation method using FEMA andrnEMS. The results of the qualitative evaluation of buildings show that the damages werernmainly non-structural and minor structural damages. The quantitative study of the twornbuildings was performed by using pushover analysis with SAP2000 software as perrnATC-40 life safety performance criteria. Results of case study 01 showed that somernstructural members of building are heavily damaged, whereas the structural members ofrncase study 02 building are in the safe range. Therefore, in order to sustain futurernearthquake some of the structural members of case study 01 need to be strengthened.rnKeywords: Seismic evaluation; Damage, Nonlinear Static Analysis; pushover curve;rnPerformance point