BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The death toll has reached 1,424 in Saturday morning's powerful magnitude 6.2 quake in Yogyakarta province and parts of Central Java, Indonesia, local police said.

    The following is a chronology of major earthquakes around the world since 2004:

    2006:

    On March 30-31, several earthquakes measuring 5-6 on the Richter scale ravaged the western Iranian province of Lorestan, killing 66 and injuring almost 1,000.

    2005:

    On Feb. 22, a quake of 6.4 on the Richter scale hit the Zarand region of the southeastern Iranian province of Kerman, which killed over 600 and wounded nearly 1,000 others.

    On March 28, an earthquake measuring 8.5 on the Richter scale struck about midnight off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, causing massive casualties and losses in property. Nias island took the hardest hit, where 633 died, 50 missing and about 27,600 became homeless.

    On Oct. 8, a 7.6-magnitude quake struck the Pakistani Kashmir, which left 73,000 dead, almost 130,000 wounded and 2.8 million homeless.

    2004:

    On Feb. 24, a 6.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Al Hoceima in the northeast of Morocco, killing 628 and injuring 926.

    On Dec. 26, a powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck off Indonesia's Sumatra, triggering tsunami and leaving over 230,000 dead or missing, among whom some 170,000 were Indonesians. Enditem