Correction to: Scientific Reports 7: Article number: 44499; published online: 20 March 2017; updated: 19 March 2018

The original HTML version of this Article contained typographical errors in the legend of Figure 2.

“In our smart grid models, the initiating failure potentially causes overloads which causes an edge failure and #x02464; a loss of power at the “sink” node.”

now reads:

“In our smart grid models, the initiating failure potentially causes overloads which causes an edge failure and a loss of power at the “sink” node.”