Correction to: Nature Geoscience https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00757-6, published online 7 May 2021.

In the version of this Editorial originally published, in the sentence beginning “An Article by Mallick et al.” the year of the earthquake was mistakenly given as ‘1868’ instead of ‘1861’; it has now been corrected in the online versions of the Editorial.