Difference between Important and Earthshaking

IMPORTANT vs EARTHSHAKING: ADJECTIVE

Having or suggesting a consciousness of high position
Having authority or ascendancy or influence
Important in effect or meaning
Of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis
Strongly affecting the course of events or the nature of things; significant.
Having high social rank or influence; prominent.
Importunate.
Of great significance or value
Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.
Bearing on; forcible; driving.
Importunate; pressing; urgent.
Having relevant and crucial value.
Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

Vital to the resolution of a crisis
Of extreme importance
Of much import; bearing weight or consequence; momentous; grave; significant.
Consequential; pretentious; pompous: as, an important manner.
[Appar. confused with importunate. Cf. importunate, 1.] Importunate; eager; pressing.

Decisive, Remarkable, Great, Influential, Momentous, Significant, Noteworthy, Fundamental, Useful, Pivotal, Valuable, Key, Critical, Essential, Crucial

Cataclysmic, Momentous, Revelatory, Earth shaking, Tremendous, Great, Enormous, Drastic, Radical, Dramatic, World shattering, World shaking, Important, Loud, Significant

Decisive, Remarkable, Great, Influential, Momentous, Significant, Noteworthy, Fundamental, Useful, Pivotal, Valuable, Key, Critical, Essential, Crucial

Cataclysmic, Momentous, Revelatory, Earth shaking, Tremendous, Great, Enormous, Drastic, Radical, Dramatic, World shattering, World shaking, Important, Loud, Significant

It is also important that we hear MPs.
Africa play an important role in human diseases.
What other tests are important with this disease?
Use emphasis sparingly, for your most important info.
All very important factors again in analyzing precedent.
It is important that procedures are followed, but it is also important that it can be shown and proved that procedures were followed.
It is important to look at your objectives for your retirement years to determine if it is important to protect your assets.
The President is important to the extent that the federal government is important.
Students illustrate an important event in the book and then explain in writing what took place and why it was important.
Building regulations have an important role to play, but we should not forget the important role of planning.

As earthshaking as the claims in the story were, no other media organizations were able to match them.
Has the church lost the explosive, earthshaking gospel of the kingdom that Jesus, Paul, and the other apostles preached in the Bible?
What happens next might not be earthshaking, but proves to be a catalyst to greater maturity and wisdom.
If you don't happen to be in Washington, the present moment is proving no less remarkable, unpredictable, and earthshaking than its predecessor.
The Silent Garden orients parents to their child's lack of hearing, what usually is an earthshaking discovery to them.
Understand these events, and it will help you see the next earthshaking empire rising in Europe.
Mississippi Mass Choir adds a blast of backing vocals, the results are positively earthshaking.
But such consequences need not be earthshaking or life threatening to stimulate useful discussion.
We had some Australian problems, but not really earthshaking.
Milky Way, instead of two years, so earthshaking.