Ninety seconds on Dettifoss
The most powerful waterfall in Europe by volume, and the ground shakes before the canyon comes into view.
Jökulsá á Fjöllum falls 44 metres over a lip 100 metres wide, carrying an average 193 cubic metres a second of grey, sediment loaded glacial meltwater through the Jökulsárgljúfur canyon in Vatnajökull National Park.
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