When my mom was a kid, the edge of my grandparent's lot used to have a rowboat tied very near it. Now the sea is about a block away.

The seismic tremors caused by the uplift are so minor that no layperson even knows about them.

Yes. The entire northern lattitudes have quakes (typically mag 1-3) from ongoing post-glaciation uplift.

Yes, small ones. http://www.snsn.se/map_right.html lists earthquakes in Sweden the last year.