--- title: How Earthquakes in Oklahoma Are a National Security Threat description: The national security risk of Oklahoma's fracking earthquakes, how the gig economy could be great for women and more. canonical: https://time.com/4086965/earthquakes-oklahoma-national-security-threat/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-26T16:01:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:08.999Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Earthquakes in Oklahoma Are a National Security Threat og:description: These are today's best ideas. og:url: https://time.com/4086965/earthquakes-oklahoma-national-security-threat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Earthquakes in Oklahoma Are a National Security Threat twitter:description: These are today's best ideas. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Earthquakes in Oklahoma Are a National Security Threat by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 26, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 26, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Oklahoma’s earthquakes are a national security threat.**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/oklahoma-earthquakes-are-a-national-security-threat) By Matthew Philips at Bloomberg **2\.** [**The gig economy could be great for women.**](http://www.wired.com/2015/10/unfinished-business-women-men-work-family/) By Anne-Marie Slaughter in Wired **3\.** [**Our nation’s racist past is making all of us sicker.**](http://daily.jstor.org/why-racism-is-terrible-for-everyone-health-care/) By Heather Tirado Gilligan in JSTOR Daily **4\.** [**Paul Ryan should be speaker of the whole House of Representatives, not one party.**](http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/10/23/paul-ryan-the-hastert-rule-and-democracy-on-the-hill/paul-ryan-would-obstruct-democracy-by-backing-the-hastert-rule) By Mickey Edwards in the New York Times **5\.** [**America’s addiction to air conditioning is killing the planet.**](http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/26/how-america-became-addicted-to-air-conditioning) By Rory Carroll in the Guardian  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4086965/earthquakes-oklahoma-national-security-threat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4086965/earthquakes-oklahoma-national-security-threat/"},"headline":"How Earthquakes in Oklahoma Are a National Security Threat","datePublished":"2015-10-26T16:01:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:08.999Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4086965/earthquakes-oklahoma-national-security-threat/","keywords":["Innovation","women","Oklahoma","Healthcare","Racism","Earthquake","Air conditioning"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4086965/earthquakes-oklahoma-national-security-threat/","name":"How Earthquakes in Oklahoma Are a National Security Threat"}}]}] ```