Disclosed herein is a silver halide emulsion which contains grains made of silver chloroiodobromide, silver iodobromide, or silver chlorobromide, each of said grains having at least one dislocation line and chemically sensitized with a tellurium sensitizer which has a pseudo-first order reaction rate constant k of 1.times.10.sup.-8 to 1.times.10.sup.0 min.sup.-1. Also disclosed herein is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which comprises at least one layer made of the silver halide emulsion, in which the grains occupying at least 50 wt % of said emulsion layer.