Erratum to: SpringerPlus (2016) 5:549 DOI 10.1186/s40064-016-2142-4

In the publication of this article (Arétouyap et al. 2016), there was an error in the Competing Interests section. The error: ‘Prof. Asfahani is the Head of Atomic Energy Commission of Syria’ should instead read: ‘Prof. Asfahani is the Head of the Applied Geophysics Division at the Atomic Energy Commission of Syria’.