diff --git a/src/hazard/src/main/java/gov/usgs/earthquake/nshmp/netcdf/NetcdfHazardCurves.java b/src/hazard/src/main/java/gov/usgs/earthquake/nshmp/netcdf/NetcdfHazardCurves.java
index 9bfce7dd54e6f34e69b6138f8252836bf2c24ce0..76e5f58c43d20a255a8afbafc194b9c0f707700e 100644
--- a/src/hazard/src/main/java/gov/usgs/earthquake/nshmp/netcdf/NetcdfHazardCurves.java
+++ b/src/hazard/src/main/java/gov/usgs/earthquake/nshmp/netcdf/NetcdfHazardCurves.java
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public class NetcdfHazardCurves extends Netcdf<StaticDataHazardCurves> {
       var group = ncd.getRootGroup();
       return new ReaderHazardCurves(group);
     } catch (IOException e) {
-      throw new RuntimeException("Could not read Netcdf file [" + netcdfPath + " ]");
+      throw new RuntimeException("Could not read Netcdf file [" + netcdfPath + "]");
     }
   }
 }