Author Correction: 420,000 year assessment of fault leakage rates shows geological carbon storage is secure.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

Correction to: Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-018-36974-0, published online 25 January 2019

This Article contains errors in the Reference list. Reference 3 is incorrectly listed as ‘Song, J. & Zhang, D. Comprehensive Review of Caprock-Sealing Mechanisms for Geologic Carbon Sequestration. 47, 9–22 (2012)’. The correct reference is listed below as ref. 1.

Reference 16 is incorrectly listed as ‘Gilfillan, S. M. V. et al. The noble gas geochemistry of natural CO2 gas reservoirs from the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountain provinces. USA. 72, 1174–1198 (2008)’. The correct reference is listed below as ref. 2.

Reference 20 is incorrectly listed as ‘Alcalde, J. et al. Quantifying geological CO2 storage security to deliver on climate mitigation (2018)’. The correct reference is listed below as ref. 3.

Reference 32 is incorrectly listed as ‘Condit, C. D. & Connor, C. B. Recurrence rates of volcanism in basaltic volcanic fields: An example from the Springerville volcanic field. Arizona. 108, 1225–1241 (1996)’. The correct reference is listed below as ref. 4.