天てん地ち鳴めい動どう

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

rumbling and shaking of the earth

Literary or dramatic expression for a great upheaval, often used figuratively for a major event that shakes the world.

• その知しらせは天てん地ち鳴めい動どうするほどの衝しょう撃げきだった。

  The news was a shock great enough to shake heaven and earth.

• 天てん地ち鳴めい動どうの大だい事じ件けんが起おこった。

  An earth-shattering event occurred.