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Wiktionary
earthshaking

a. 1 Of global consequence or importance 2 Very loud

WordNet
earthshaking
  1. adj. loud enough to shake the very earth

  2. sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; "earthshaking proposals"; "the contest was no world-shaking affair"; "the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering" [syn: world-shaking, world-shattering]

Usage examples of "earthshaking".

Then there came another earthshaking explosion, and sheets of flame came spewing out of the two peaks in twin geysers of liquid fire reaching up and up toward the sky and spattering the sides of nearby peaks with globs of molten rock.

There, even as the Witches had done to defeat Ragan, those among them possessing the Power had wrought a mighty earthshaking, walling out their ancient homeland.

I can see nothing earthshaking about his confessions, yet they would have touched me.

Kissing Stark was everything she had known that it would be, a searing, mind-altering, earthshaking experience.

Harun made his mark early, at the age of nineteen, with his earthshaking paper on electron decaythe paper that revolutionized physics by challenging the law of electric-charge conservation.

Temple a low rumbling was heard which in just seconds grew in intensity to an earthshaking peal of thunder.

They had a good deal of money, but nowhere near the earthshaking wealth and the galaxy of resources possessed by telcos or federal agencies.

The celestial globe reflected tiny splotches of fire which must be earthshaking explosions.

Grill to determine whatever earthshaking news was to be presented to me not on a silver platter, but more likely on a worn tin cookie sheet.

I finally put the car in one of whatever gears it had left and drove toward Ruby Bee's Bar & Grill to determine whatever earthshaking news was to be presented to me not on a silver platter, but more likely on a worn tin cookie sheet.

The news from Edwina was so stunning, so shocking, so earthshaking that it threw Dov for a loop the size of Halley's comet's trajectory.