world-shaking

[ wurld-shey-king ]

/ ˈwɜrldˌʃeɪ kɪŋ /

of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.

Origin of world-shaking

First recorded in 1590–1600

Not long afterward came the world-shaking news of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Bin Laden’s Life on the Run, Witnessed by Al Qaeda Child Bride |Michael Daly |July 10, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Then, blackness again—and, like the closing click of this world-wide camera, there followed a world-shaking crash of thunder.

Counsel for the Defense |Leroy Scott
All it needs is the electric spark to cause the world-shaking explosion.

The Air Trust |George Allan England
Twelve years elapsed before Darwin followed up his world-shaking book with the Descent of Man.

Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley |Edward Clodd

A soil which even to Noah was the destined theatre of world-shaking war!

Ghetto Tragedies |Israel Zangwill
When Jack cures his toothache with a box of soldiers, who knows what world-shaking evolutions are afoot?

Faces in the Fire |Frank W. Boreham

world-shaking

of enormous significance; momentous