India, June 1 -- Earth was struck by a powerful Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), with the speed of upwards of 1000 km/sec late on Saturday amid fears of a rare geomagnetic storm. Space Weather Live cited the CMS speed to report that the wave has been measured by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft located at the Sun-Earth L1 point.

"With the current speed, it will take the solar wind 25 minutes to propagate from DSCOVR to Earth," Space Weather Live added.

The CME, a massive eruption of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun's corona, reached Earth at around 1:30 AM ET on June 1, as predicted by NASA and NOAA models.

SpaceWeatherLive.com reported solar wind speeds peaking at 1002 km/sec, with the interplanetary magnetic ...