The explosions which rocked the Soufriere hills volcano sent ash up to 12, 200 metres (40, 000 feet) into the air.
In 2010, thousands of residents moved to temporary shelters when the volcano ejected ash in an 8-kilometer (5-mile) zone surrounding the crater.
But that does not mean the volcano produced fine ash continuously.
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Surfing down the ash covering a volcano in Nicaragua, heliskiing in Chile, anaconda hunting in the Amazon and motorbike safaris in Namibia are all popular.
In 1982 a BA flight hit a cloud of ash over an Indonesian volcano and all four engines stopped.
It was unclear when the situation would end, because the volcano was still erupting and spewing ash Saturday, said Agust Gunnar Gylfason, a project manager at Iceland's Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management.
Liverpool's next game is the Europa League semifinal tie with Atletico Madrid on Thursday but due to the ongoing disruption to flights caused by an ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland, they will set off by road tomorrow.
The problem is being caused by a continuing eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in southern Iceland, which is pumping volcanic ash high into the atmosphere.
The volcano, in the North Island, sent a column of ash at least 2km (1.25 miles) into the air, scientists said.
Iceland's tourist trade was even able to safely negotiate the ash-cloud chaos caused by the erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano in mid-2010.
Some tools were sandwiched in ash from the eruption of the Toba super-volcano in Indonesia that geologists can date very accurately to 74, 000 years ago.
The Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) report an increased likelihood of larger and more ash-rich eruptions in their most recent alert bulletin.
So it is ironic that a volcano in Iceland has erupted and dislocated much of Europe with a cloud of ash.
The disruption has affected hundreds of thousands of travellers since Wednesday when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting for the second time in a month, hurling a plume of ash 11km (seven miles) into the atmosphere.
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