I'm not from there, but where I live, not long ago, one happened, it was 5.8. Nothing happened thankfully. I hope nothing happened over there.
I live across the country, but I just heard about it on the news. So don't worry, you aren't going crazy!
Nope. The atlantic has a bit of a softening effect. Most things don't have a relation to LGBT stuff on chit chat, you know.