earth-shattering vs peripheral

earth-shattering

peripheral

noun
  • Peripheral vision. 

  • A peripheral device. 

adj
  • Related to or located in the peripheral nervous system. 

  • Unimportant. 

  • Beside the point. 

  • On the periphery or boundary. 

  • Auxiliary. 

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