An earthquake from space: detection of precursory magnetic anomalies from Swarm satellites before the 2015 M8 Nepal Earthquake

Angelo De Santis1, Georgios Balasis2, F. Javier Pavón-Carrasco3, Gianfranco Cianchini1 and Mioara Mandea4, (1)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy, (2)National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS), Athens, Greece, (3)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Palermo, Italy, (4)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France