earth-shattering vs groundbreaking

earth-shattering

groundbreaking

adj
  • Innovative; new, different; doing something that has never been done before. 

noun
  • A ceremony to mark the beginning of construction. 

  • The point at which construction begins, by digging into the ground. 

How often have the words earth-shattering and groundbreaking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )