a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"

the act of making a noisy disturbance

A civil commotion is an insurrection of the people for general purposes (though it may not amount to rebellion, where there is usurped power) which occasions a serious and prolonged disturbance and infraction of civil order, but not attaining the status of war or an armed Insurrection. Term refers to political disorders, not to economic disturbance.

a disturbance or lots of loud action