A unique deep-sea research station will appear on Baikal in March 2013, its data will allow to predict the earthquake two days, reported RIA Novosti Director of the Institute of applied physics, Irkutsk state University (ISU) Nikolay Budnev.

The station will be with high accuracy to measure fluctuations of the electromagnetic field of the planet.

Experiments with the measurement of fluctuations of the electromagnetic field on lake Baikal started in 2003. Scientists have put a special unit, which is a power antenna with sensors and acoustic transmitter. In August 2008 managed to fix the strong changes and unusual variation of the electric field on the eve of a major earthquake with the epicenter on the South of Baikal (eight points).

Scientists believe that the phenomenon is of tectonic nature, but, as noted by the Budnev, the details of the mechanism of change of the electromagnetic field before the earthquake require clarification and verification.

For these purposes in the Irkutsk University is developing a series of new, more perfect stations for long-term multivariate observations.

The first such station will install on Baikal in March 2013. "It will log all six components of the electromagnetic field and a number of other parameters. Partially "hardware" is already ready and set in area of Baikal neutrino Observatory," said Director of the Institute of applied physics.

According to him, all information with underwater station will be available to scientists in real time over the Internet, connection with it will be with hydro-acoustics. In the future, scientists believe, on lake Baikal, you can create a system which will allow to predict the place, time and magnitude of earthquakes.

According to Bodneva, the project is partly funded by the Russian Foundation for basic research and the budget of the Irkutsk region. In the project, in addition to the yoke, also involved the scientists of the centre Geoelectromagnetic research Institute of physics of the Earth named O. Y. Schmidt, RAS (CHEMI IPE RAS) and the Institute of nuclear research (INR).

The Baikal area (the so-called Baikal rift zone) refers to the territories with high seismicity in Irkutsk region and Buryatia, located near lake, regularly observed powerful earthquake, the epicentre of which, as a rule, is in the region of lake Baikal.