Mountain rivers can be the place of very intense sediment transport which has the potential to strongly shape the landscape and impact the safety of inhabited areas. However, our understanding on the physics of the processes is limited by a lack of field observations, which is linked to the unpredictable and destructive nature of such events. The use of passive seismology has been proposed as an alternative to classical monitoring techniques. Fluvial processes exert force fluctuations on the riverbed, and these forces generate ground vibrations that can be detected continuously and remotely by seismometers. Although seismic signals contain unique information about their source, the potential of using seismic observations to investigate inte...