upheaval

Noun

• disturbance usually in protest

• (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

• a violent disturbance
  • the convulsions of the stock market
    

• a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
  • the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  agitation , excitement , turmoil , hullabaloo , uplift , upthrow , upthrust , convulsion , turbulence , Sturm und Drang